On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 09:49:47AM -0500, Gail Carmichael wrote:
Bryce Harrington wrote:
To preemptively answer anyone concerned about work they've still got under way and whether it's too late - don't panic, at this point we're not looking to put a stop to feature work, just to track it carefully so we can make sure it gets finished in time.
Too bad I didn't see this before responding :) If you guys want to I think the patch could be included as is, and my refactoring / fixes could be added in a new branch.
By the way, is the patch tracker in Launchpad too? I haven't gone to check Launchpad out yet.
Right, they're essentially one and the same now. There's a checkbox next to the upload file button for indicating patches, and we can search for bugs with patches attached.
So it's a bit different workflow than we're used to, but should be workable.
Longer term, probably following the 0.46 release, it sounds like there's strong support for moving to a distributed version control system (probably either git or bzr). These systems greatly reduce the need for something like a patch tracker, since cloning, branching, and merging are very easy.
For now though, just pop them into the bug tracker and make sure to flag them as patches.
Bryce