Re: [mdbtools-dev] Many patches, is that project dead? Fork?

Brian Bruns <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Jun 2010 12:35:42 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.db.mdb-tools.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Thomas,

Let me know when you have a patch or two ready and we'll figure out
the process from there.

Brian

2010/6/16 Thomas Adam <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 11:29:18AM -0400, Brian Bruns wrote:
>> Hi Thomas,
>
> Hi --
>
>> Help with getting patches applied is greatly appreciated.  I'm hoping
>> to be more active in the near term.  I've had some other projects
>> taking precedence over the past year.  Like I mentioned in the last
>> email, I have a github repo, let me know if want to clone or whatever
>> and I can merge back from you or whatever you think works best.
>
> Yes -- and I've already cloned that:
>
> http://github.com/ThomasAdam/mdbtools
>
> I will do the following over time then:
>
> * Review the list of pending patches and apply them to my forked repository.
> * Implement my own patches (most of them are cleanups to be honest).
>
> I don't know how proficient you, or anyone else reading this exchange is
> with git, but I use a combination of guilt and topic-branches to manage
> these sort of work-flows --- I'll let you know what topic-branches are what
> as and when I get to publishing them -- but hopefully the names of them
> should be explanation enough.  :)
>
> -- Thomas Adam
>
> --
> "It was the cruelest game I've ever played and it's played inside my head."
> -- "Hush The Warmth", Gorky's Zygotic Mynci.
>

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