[aur-general] Question about patches in [community]

Ng Oon-Ee ngoonee at gmail.com
Mon Sep 6 23:47:29 EDT 2010


On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 10:17 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> 2010/9/7 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> > On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 08:17 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote:
> >> 2010/9/6 Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com>:
> >> > On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 10:11 -0500, Brad Fanella wrote:
> >> >> 2010/9/6 Sven-Hendrik Haase <sh at lutzhaase.com>
> >> >>
> >> >> >  On 06.09.2010 08:42, Ng Oon-Ee wrote:
> >> >> > > On Sun, 2010-09-05 at 21:03 -0400, Loui Chang wrote:
> >> >> > >> On Sun 05 Sep 2010 22:49 +0200, Sven-Hendrik Haase wrote:
> >> >> > >>> Arch TUs are generally considered to be the ultimate nightmare
> >> >> of any
> >> >> > >>> upstream maintainer. We come in the night, nagging with patches
> >> >> until
> >> >> > >>> all known upstream problems are fixed.
> >> >> > >>>
> >> >> > >>> Do not stop trying to get your patches into upstream.
> >> >> > >> Hell yeah!
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > > Sven-Hendrik's post should be plastered on the wall of every TU
> >> >> (and
> >> >> > > Arch user, actually) =)
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > Any objections to putting the quote in its entirety on the wiki
> >> >> for TUs?
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > None at all. :)
> >> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I was actually planning on making that my forum signature! :-P
> >> >> However, that
> >> >> is crucial information and needs to be included in the wiki.
> >> >
> >> > Done. May need polishing =)
> >> >
> >> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU.27s_mission_statement
> >>
> >> Sorry, but however awesome Sven is, that kind of content does not fit
> >> in that page. I have slightly changed the wording of the introductory
> >> paragraph for the "desired effect"; see wiki diff.
> >
> > Understood =). The comment is still awesome though. Would it be
> > acceptable for 'communicating with and sending patches upstream as
> > needed' to contain a link to the ML post?
> 
> Sure. In fact, since there are no other examples I can recall for the
> sake of citation, that _was_ my intention (which somehow skipped my
> keyboard).

Done. There seems to be a spacing issue on my browser after the link, is
that standard?



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