Re: Getting things in... Was: Re: shifts on 64bit ints

[Paul Mackerras <paulus@linuxcare.com.au>]

Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:

> I'm an horribly bad web designer, but one cool thing to do if someone is
> good at it, would be a web-pased patch repository. You send patches with
> a web form (eventually an upload mecanism) along with your  email, a
> comment, etc..., they get assigned a patch number automatically, anybody
> can consult the database, and people with write access to BK can mark
> them (accepted, refused, postponed, ... along with a comment) once they
> have been handled.

Sounds exactly like the jitterbug site that Andrew Tridgell set up for
the Linux kernel.  Linus tried it for a while but unfortunately
eventually decided he didn't like it enough.  But for the rest of us
it was great.  Tridge even put in a "test patch" button for Linus that
would rsync the current kernel tree, automagically unpack/decompress
the patch, apply it and report any errors.  I could ask Tridge to set
up something like this for us.

Paul.

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