[Pkg-mailman-hackers] various issues

[Bernd S. Brentrup]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:58:46PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:

[...]

> |  Also, can we talk about the rules? Wouldn't it be better if we work as
> | a team, ie if someone has change in source, a bug should be closed etc,
> | then an other member should ack on it?
> 
> Those are the rules in another project I'm taking part of.  (Slightly
> modified)
> 
> * "Obvious fixes" may be simply committed straight onto trunk/
> 
> * All other changes, especially large patches and development work, must
>   be done on a non-release branch (consider using your username in the
>   name) and discussed with and approved by other developers before being
>   merged onto trunk/
> 
> * All changes to must be accompanied by an entry in debian/changelog.
> 
> * If a patch from somebody else is applied, note their name and e-mail
>   address in the changelog.

Sounds reasonable to me, but how do you define "obvious"? Apart from
typos it's mostly a matter of experience what you consider obvious.

Tollef, did you setup commit notification messages to the list?

Thanks
. Siggy