[PD-dev] Patch tracker usage

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at at.or.at
Mon Oct 10 01:52:34 CEST 2011


On Oct 9, 2011, at 6:40 PM, Marvin Humphrey wrote:

>>> Comment By: Hans-Christoph Steiner (eighthave)
>> Date: 2011-10-09 12:54
>>
>> Message:
>> This sounds great, I'll include it in Pd-extended and we'll see how  
>> it does
>> there.  The only problem is that there are two patches included in  
>> this
>> tracker and they seem to have the same name.  Could you delete the  
>> older
>> one, so there is only one patch?
>
> I've done as you asked, though I don't see the reason it was  
> necessary to do
> so.  Files seem to be listed in reverse chronological order of  
> upload, so it's
> always apparent what the most recent version of a file is from the  
> page
> layout.  If in doubt, you can snoop the URLs and look for the  
> attachment ids,
> though I'd just grab the topmost link.  (The JIRA install at Apache  
> works the
> same way, and that's how we handle multiple uploads with the same  
> name.)  Is
> there something I've missed?
>
> Since the preferred method of patch submission is "git format- 
> patch", the
> filename doesn't change unless either the first line of the commit  
> changes or
> the submitter manually appends a version to it.  I can do that, but  
> it's an
> extra step.


Most Pd people using the SF tracker aren't aware of its details, (I  
guess me included since I didn't know the order).  I think it makes a  
lot more transparent if there is only one copy of the files there,  
unless there is a specific reason to have both copies of the patch  
there, like two different approaches.

You don't need to change the name of the patch at all, IMHO, just  
deleting old copies is enough to make it clear, in combo with the  
comments.

.hc


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