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[Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 11:39:21AM +0200, Flavien Bridault wrote:
> Hello everybody,
> 
> Due to recent comments in sm-commits, I would like to bring back the
> discussion about patches in grimoire we had in may. 
> I have been indeed asked several informations (origin of the patches,
> authors, etc...) about some patches I've committed some day ago, and
> this highlights imho the lack of consistency in the use of patches.
> HISTORY can't contain all these informations, so we do need to do
> something about that.
> Therefore I would like to start a wiki page to sum up what we discussed
> earlier, and then we could end this discussion. Everybody agrees on the
> need of a better handling of patches ?

Agreed.
Maybe start with just defining a few information comments that should be
put in all new patches that outline exactly the stuff you were asked,
like origin, author, applied upstream, ...

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