Re: [9fans] proposal: a patch acceptance system

[andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>]

One possibility is creating yet another group on sources -- one where patch
submitters can be added. It's easy then for a person not in any such group
to cat /adm/users and send a patch to one of the people already in, or if
they're more serious to ask to be added to the group.

If Plan 9's userbase suddenly starts growing exponentially this could solve
the problems, otherwise the simple restriction that one needs a Plan 9
installation running to access /patch is going to be enough :)

andrey

On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, David Presotto wrote:

> I'm of mixed minds.  If you send something to 9trouble, I will respond fairly
> quickly modulo not being around for a week every now and then.  If you send
> something to 9fans, I could take a while because I tend to miss things
> when a flame war is going on.  I would suggest that contributions at least
> get sent to 9trouble and, if you want wider immediate distribution, to
> 9fans.  I'm also not averse to leaving a patch area on sources that people
> can indescriminately dump into.  I don't understand how to avoid abuse problems,
> but I would draft a 9grid like policy (i.e. don't be stupid) and leave it in
> an obvious place.  However, I don't want to turn this into Linux where you need
> something like debian to find a set of patches (or CVS's) that actually make
> sense together.