[arch-dev-public] pacman tag support (initial patch attached)

[Ronald van Haren]

sorry for not knowing, Xavier already told me about it. Next time I'll
first check if such a mailinglist does exist before bothering you ;)

ronald

On 8/21/08, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:31 AM, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Ronald van Haren <pressh at 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
>