From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16851 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2000 16:23:32 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 6 Apr 2000 16:23:32 -0000 Received: (qmail 14203 invoked by alias); 6 Apr 2000 16:23:24 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 10550 Received: (qmail 14191 invoked from network); 6 Apr 2000 16:23:23 -0000 Subject: Re: PATCH: AIX dep.&doc fix; development guidelines In-Reply-To: <200004060723.JAA06359@beta.informatik.hu-berlin.de> from Sven Wischnowsky at "Apr 6, 2000 09:23:49 am" To: Sven Wischnowsky Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:23:16 +0100 (BST) CC: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL66 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Zefram 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, so I >> could reference the article number in the commitlog. It appears that Sven >> has been doing this too. > >Yesss, most annoying... it means that I can't continue hacking on the >next thing before the mail comes back. So zsh interrupts my real work >more often and in smaller time slices. This is obviously getting in the way of things. I think we'll have to abandon the ideal of having mailing list message numbers in commit log entries and in ChangeLog entries (at least as initially committed). Let's just each use our own sequence numbers, and rely on grep to tie the CVS changes to the mailing list message. -zefram