From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Jeff Dike Message-ID: <20040725001114.GA13469@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [uml-devel] Incremental patches available Sender: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: user-mode-linux-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: The user-mode Linux development list List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 20:11:14 -0400 To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net, user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net As part of my redoing how I work on UML, I've started using quilt to maintain the changes going into a UML release as a set of discrete patches. Among other things, this lets me publish the patches that have gone into my working tree before they are released as part of a full UML patch. See http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/patches.html There is one patch there, fixing something somewhat tangential (an iomem bug exposed by the test suite, of which more later), letting me figure out the new process. This will be updated fairly frequently, by cron or something. This will greatly shrink the window in which someone can else find and fix a bug, and send me a patch, while I, unbeknownst to anyone else, have fixed the same bug. Of course, this won't stop people who don't look at that page, but at least the information is available. It should also help UML stability by allowing people to test patches between UML releases, so that they should be right by the time they are released officially. Finally, I'm going to have the release changelogs include the patches that went into the release. That will enable people who find some new breakage to back out patches one by one until the breakage goes away. A lot more people will be able to do useful debugging, since no technical skills beyond running patch and rebuilding UML will be required. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=4721&alloc_id=10040&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel