[sldev] Etiquette for posting patches-in-progress?

[Able Whitman]

If possible, I'd prefer not to create a bunch of placeholder JIRA entries
just for the purpose of tracking the status of patches. There's enough
duplication noise in JIRA already--and I have great admiration for those
people who devote considerable time to helping clean it up!

On 7/17/07, Nicholaz Beresford <nicholaz at blueflash.cc> wrote:
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> Hmmm, maybe post it with something in the title
> ("sandbox patch"?) that makes clear that it's not
> yet ready.
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> Nick
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> Able Whitman wrote:
> > If I've got a patch for a JIRA issue that's not quite finished, but in a
> > state that can be tested, would it be good practive for me to attach the
> > patch to the JIRA issue, with a note that it's not the final version?
> >
> > I'm trying to find the most convenient way to share in-progress patches,
> > and the nice thing about putting them in JIRA is that it's a central
> > place for all the resources related to a particular bug. So for things
> > like the Sandbox ( i.e., the Yet-To-Be-Named) edition, all the current
> > patches could be found in JIRA without having to have some submitted via
> > email, some downloaded from other sites, etc.  The downside is that
> > currently there's no common way to flag a patch as "attached, but not
> > ready for import".
> >
> > Maybe a "ready for import" flag could be added? Or maybe the right
> > solution is to post the patch elsewhere (like on my own site, like I do
> > currently), and only attach patches to JIRA when they're done. I'd like
> > to do whatever is simplest and least confusing, but I'm not sure that
> > one solution meets both criteria. :)
> >
> > --Able
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