On 09/20/2014 12:23 AM, Craig Ringer wrote:
> On 09/20/2014 12:38 AM, Stephen Frost wrote:
>
>> I would not (nor do I feel that I did..) have committed it over a
>> specific request to not do so from another committer. I had been hoping
>> that there would be another review coming from somewhere, but there is
>> always a trade-off between waiting longer to get a review ahead of a
>> commit and having it committed and then available more easily for others
>> to work with, review, and generally moving forward.
>
> Y'know what helps with that? Publishing clean git branches for
> non-trivial work, rather than just lobbing patches around.
>
> I'm finding the reliance on a patch based workflow increasingly
> frustrating for complex work, and wonder if it's time to revisit
> introducing a git repo+ref to the commitfest app.
>
> I find the need to find the latest patch on the list, apply it, and fix
> it up really frustrating. "git am --3way" helps a lot, but only if the
> patch is created with "git format-patch".
>
> Perhaps it's time to look at whether git can do more to help us with the
> testing and review process.
We discussed this at the last developer meeting, without coming up with
a written procedure. Your ideas can help ...
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