RE: libwin32 commit bit?

[email protected] ("Jan Dubois")
Newsgroups perl.libwin32
Organization ActiveState Software Inc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Oops, wanted to CC to the list too.

Cheers,
-Jan

On Wed, 22 Sep 2010, Jan Dubois wrote:
> Olivier Mengué wrote:
> > Hi Jan,
> >
> > You have probably followed my patches for the following libwin32 bugs:
> > - RT#50020 : Win32::Daemon
> > - RT#61484 : Win32::EventLog
> >
> > Would it be possible to give me a commit bit on the Subversion
> > repository so I could patch Win32::EventLog myself?
> 
> Hi Olivier,
> 
> I’ve added you to the project member list, so you should have write
> access to the repository now.
> 
> Thank you for the Win32::EventLog patch and especially for the added test!
> 
> You have probably noticed that I didn’t apply all of your Win32::Daemon
> changes. I did want to release the sources as close as possible to the
> way I got the initial drop from Dave (although it did require some
> massive refactoring to isolate the code from the rest of his modules,
> and make it build with MakeMaker).
> 
> I would prefer to have doc changes, or source reformatting as separate
> changes from bug fixes. And I want any kind of source reformatting as a
> single commit, not spread out over a long period of time, as that makes
> it harder down the road to track actual logic changes.
> 
> Finally, I would like to see a discussion of any change that modifies
> the existing APIs. These modules are very old, and sometimes have rather
> bad interfaces, but they are used by lots of scripts and have been
> documented in books and articles. I don’t want to break any of this. So
> if in doubt, please discuss first on [email protected].
> 
> Cheers,
> -Jan
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