On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi guys!
Can someone give me write access to pacman git (Dan?), so I don't have to send every patch to the list :)
For the record, this is on purpose. git makes it so that it's very easy to send patches and manage your own repo. I am totally comfortable with Dan managing this. If you use git-format-patch and git-send-email, emailing patches to an ML is a breeze, and applying them (with git-am) is too.
I'd still suggest sending this to the pacman-dev ML, as many of the active pacman people are there and not really official developers
I guess I can't blame new developers for their gusto, so no hard feelings, but getting commit access to pacman.git is not quite that easy. Talk to the rest of the "development staff" on the pacman-dev mailing list and you will find 95% of contributions go through the list, even those of mine that are not trivial. Sending patches to the list enables us to do easy peer review, and this process has been tried and tested with Linux kernel development for some time, so it isn't just for small projects. As I believe numerous people have said, pacman-dev is a great place to bring these kind of things up and you will have a much more talkative audience there. In addition, http://archlinux.org/pacman/HACKING.html and http://archlinux.org/pacman/submitting-patches.html are helpful reads. -Dan