From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:41:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:40:52 -0400 Received: from mailhost.idcomm.com ([207.40.196.14]:46789 "EHLO mailhost.idcomm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 20 Jun 2001 20:40:37 -0400 Message-ID: <3B3142DB.F4658CA4@idcomm.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 18:42:03 -0600 From: "D. Stimits" Reply-To: stimits@idcomm.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-pre1-xfs-4 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Alan Cox quote? (was: Re: accounting for threads) In-Reply-To: <200106202120.f5KLKO5320707@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <0106201412240B.00776@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Rob Landley wrote: ...snip... > The patches-linus-actuall-applies mailing list idea is based on how Linus > says he works: he appends patches he likes to a file and then calls patch -p1 > < thatfile after a mail reading session. It wouldn't be too much work for > somebody to write a toy he could use that lets him work about the same way > but forwards the messages to another folder where they can go out on an > otherwise read-only list. (No extra work for Linus. This is EXTREMELY > important, 'cause otherwise he'll never touch it.) What if the file doing patches from is actually visible on a web page? Or better yet, if the patch command itself was modified such that at the same time it applies a patch, the source and the results were added to a MySQL server which in turn shows as a web page?