Re: EXTERNAL: Re: collecting pending Amanda 3.5.x patches

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 22:02:37 +0000, Chris Hassell wrote:
> If we / you have *any* patches that are useful to 3_5 .... for 3.5.1
> or for a target 3.5.2 ... please consider that to be Zmanda's (and my)
> serious concern.

Excellent.

For those fixes that already have patches in the list archives, do you
have a particular preference as to which mode of "highlighting" is best?

  A) send in an email the message From/Subject/Date headers from the 
     original message
  B) send a URL pinting to the thread in question at some list-archive
     website
  C) re-send the entire message in question as a new message


> I was hoping we'd have more things somewhere in the git-piles or otherwise visible.

(Historically Jean-Louis just committed things to Zmanda's SVN repo
directly, so there is not really a tradition of cloned repos or PRs,
etc.)  

> I have hopes, of a type, to see what else is going on in the master
> branch ... but it is *soo* old and kerfunkled and not worth our
> near-term time.  Many fixes (I'd heard) were the same between the two
> but still changes abound and the divergence of 3.5 and trunk seems to
> go on forever.

Agreed.  There may be a few cases where reviewing master-v.s.-3.5
will be useful, but mostly the urgent focus is just 3.5.

> Can we drag in (for PRs or otherwise) any more legacy-fixes-or-patches
> out there?  Ideally this should be an OSS-free-for-all where the

There may be a topic or two worth putting separately into a PR, but
mostly I think these issues are so simple that it's going to be less
work overall at this point for you just to commit it yourself directly
from the email.

> improvements are kept visible and used-if-better.  I'd thank you for
> the time but I've not seen them.  How old are we talking?

(Well, really they date back to soon after 3.5.1 was released.)


							Nathan


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