From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvZ0o-00026f-Me for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:32:54 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LvZ0o-00026S-7B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:32:54 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43586 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LvZ0o-00026N-3g for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:32:54 -0400 Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com ([72.14.220.159]:36139) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LvZ0n-00033H-GP for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:32:53 -0400 Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so523717fga.8 for ; Sun, 19 Apr 2009 08:32:51 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 18:32:51 +0300 Message-ID: From: Blue Swirl Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=0016363b9cc675769e0467ea2092 Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH, RFC] Add file describing rules for submitting patches Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel --0016363b9cc675769e0467ea2092 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I gathered a few common complaints about patch submission, hopefully not too much affected by my consumption of small amounts of various alcoholic substances. 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