From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17244 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2000 17:03:20 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2000 17:03:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 4185 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2000 17:02:54 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10553 Received: (qmail 4156 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2000 17:02:53 -0000 From: "Bart Schaefer" Message-Id: <1000406170212.ZM16560@candle.brasslantern.com> Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:02:12 +0000 In-Reply-To: Comments: In reply to Zefram "Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines" (Apr 6, 5:23pm) References: X-Mailer: Z-Mail (5.0.0 30July97) To: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Apr 6, 5:23pm, Zefram wrote: } Subject: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines } } Sven Wischnowsky wrote: } >> But with e.g. my patch to Makefile.in, I mailed off the "cvs diff" output } >> and then waited for the patch to come back to me before committing } > } >Yesss, most annoying... it means that I can't continue hacking on the } >next thing before the mail comes back. You could if you used two copies of the source tree like I do ... } Let's just each use our own sequence numbers, and rely on grep to tie } the CVS changes to the mailing list message. Our own sequence numbers? I can't imagine anyone who's not on the mailing list making any sense of four or five separate sets of sequence numbers. Heck, I am on the mailing list and I wouldn't want to try to make sense of it. Exactly what am I going to grep, anyway? Is each of us supposed to be keeping our own archive of the entire mailing list? And where does this additional sequence number appear in the mailing list message? How do I get Sven's number 22396 and not Peter's? And what about people who don't have commit access who mail patches to the list? If we're going to drop the article numbers from the ChangeLog because it's too much work to keep them, then just drop them. Bolting on some multithreaded numbering scheme is only going to make things worse. -- Bart Schaefer Brass Lantern Enterprises http://www.well.com/user/barts http://www.brasslantern.com