Re: [gentoo-dev] The Plethora of Patches

[Tobias Scherbaum]

Santiago M. Mola wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Tobias Scherbaum
> <dertobi123@g.o> wrote:
> > Santiago M. Mola wrote:
> >
> >> However, tracking the status of every patch since its inclusion in
> >> portage until it's removed would be a huge work overhead... and I
> >> doubt it's worthy.
> >
> > I don't think it's a huge work overhead, it'll take an additional minute
> > per included patch to include a minimal description into the ebuild(s)
> > and use a standardized header for the patch. Compared to the time one
> > needs to spend when searching for information on that patch somewhen
> > later on it's worth every minute.
> >
>
> Of course, puting a header with info in every patch is not a work
> overhead and I'd say it should be policy. What I meant is that it's no
> worth to track the status of every patch after it's added, as was
> suggested.

Agreed. Everyone of us is doing some kind of status tracking for each
and every patch at least for every version bump, additional status
tracking like Andrew suggested would be a good thing (tm) but is plain
impossible to realize for now given the fact we're lacking the needed
manpower.

  Tobias