Re: How to submit a patch?

Chris Hellberg <[email protected]> Tue, 11 Jan 2005 13:24:51 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.xmms.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
That looks really good - thanks for the link.

I guess these build have Gentoo specific build
scripts, but other than than could be compiled for
other architectures/dists by just checking out the CVS
and not using the Gentoo build script?

If it's viable enough, would you want to accept
patches or have other contributors to the CVS and
match up the bugs?
 
--- Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]> wrote:

> Take a look at
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~eradicator/xmms
> 
> I've got a patchset which has a bunch of bugzilla
> bugs in them, and
> they've had a lot of testing on gentoo... there are
> a few bugs versus
> current 1.2.10, BUT I verified that these bugs are
> in xmms cvs as
> well... just haven't had time to debug much.
> 
> On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 12:51 -0800, Chris Hellberg
> wrote:
> > I've been toying with the idea of doing a code
> fork -
> > something like an xmms-dev branch and go back
> through
> > the xmms bugzilla and add the contributed patches
> that
> > have been left out. If the maintainership of the
> main
> > xmms branch comes back to life, then we could act
> as a
> > testing branch for features before they get
> accepted
> > in the mainline/stable xmms branch and do merges
> > periodically.
> > 
> > It's hard to tell if the current CVS guy is too
> busy,
> > or lost interest or both.
> > 
> > Anyone interested in helping with such an
> enterprise? 
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> > --- Jeremy Huddleston <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > 
> > > cvs hasn't been updated signifigantly in about 6
> > > months.  I offered to
> > > help with maintainership a few months back, but
> > > nothing came of it... so
> > > xmms is pretty much rotting now... =(
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 14:22 -0800, Chris
> Hellberg
> > > wrote:
> > > > Weel, I've been submitting my patches to
> bugzilla.
> > > I'm
> > > > buggared if I know if anyone looks at them or
> will
> > > > even includes them in the source. I expect if
> the
> > > > answer to the previous statement is yes, then
> > > you'd
> > > > probably get the same result as if you'd
> emailed
> > > the
> > > > patch to this list.
> > > > 
> > > > Personally I think there should be more
> > > communication
> > > > on this matter (either communication style or
> > > > development involvement from others) since it
> > > seems
> > > > like most things here go to /dev/null.
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > --- Rudy Desjardins <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > > 
> > > > > 	I was wondering how/where I can submit a
> small
> > > > > patch to
> > > > > the xmms base source, and also if there are
> any
> > > > > coding/submission
> > > > > guidelines I need to follow.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thanks!
> > > > >
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> > > -- 
> > > Jeremy Huddleston
> > > 
> > > Unless otherwise stated, any source code or
> patches
> > > provided in this
> > > mail are licensed under the Gnu Public License
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