On 03.12.2011 01:21, John Sumsion wrote:

I saw that several people have submitted patches on github. But when I follow a link to their repos, it's always a 404, so I'm assuming you prefer patches in email.

That's correct.

NOTE: I couldn't find any statement of policy on accepting patches through github; this search didn't turn anything obvious up: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Amailman.archlinux.org+pacman+github+re...

The only reason you find github (and other git repo) links is because it's easier to pull a branch from a repo than it is to `git am` every patch by hand. Nevertheless, patches are still sent here for discussion first.

It would be good to state your policy on accepting commits through github here: http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/submitting-patches.html

"Submitting your patch" already contains that information: "Send the patch to the pacman-dev mailing list". Nothing else is mentioned there, so this is the way we want it to be. -- Florian Pritz