Re: [Gnu-arch-users] tla patch queue manager 0.1

[Andrew Suffield]

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 08:24:32PM -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 19:06, Colin Walters wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After today's discussion about patch queue managers on IRC, I thought to
> > myself that a simple one should be pretty easy to write.
> 
> If you could, I have absolutely no idea what a "patch queue manager"
> is.  Can you describe what problem it solves, and how?

This is actually quite a tricky question. I've been trying to come up
with a good answer for a while; it's a class of tools to solve a class
of problems, but defining those classes accurately is not easy.

In vague terms, the problem can be described as "Automating the
process of maintaining a release branch". If you'd rather have a trite
definition, my best yet is "Adding centralisation to distributed
development". It may be interesting to see what other people can come
up with.

[Colin's variant is one of the most trivial forms, which happens to be
"At least as good as CVS". It's good enough for most cases. I've been
concentrating on a much more complicated form for a while; my informal
goal is "At least as good as aegis"]

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