[RFC] gnucash-patches mailing list

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 01:19:29PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> Quoting Chris Shoemaker <c.shoemaker at cox.net>:
> 
> >On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 12:59:00PM -0500, Derek Atkins wrote:
> >>We've got 26 email addresses subscribed to -patches but not subscribed
> >>to -devel.  Of those 26 addresses, 9 of them are linas.org/gnucash.org
> >>addresses of developers.  So that means there are 17 people subscribed
> >>to -patches that are not subscribed to -devel.
> >
> >Oops. I forgot about people subscribed for the commit messages.  We
> >should post the new policy then.  Something as simple as:
> >
> >This list will soon be read-only.  Please submit future patches to
> >gnucash-devel at gnucash.org with `[PATCH]' prefixed to the Subject line.
> 
> Feel free to send that out now.  

Will do.

> I'll cope with my personal methods
> to keep track of patches between now and when we get something like
> the trac tracker up and running.  I presume you don't object to requiring
> developers (read: committers) to have trac accounts to handle and close out
> patches?

Except for marking a patch as applied, I'm not sure what that entails.
For patch discussion I hope trac has at least as good integration with
email as bugzilla does.  But it sounds reasonable to require trac accounts
and, no, I can't object until I've at least tried it.  :)

-chris