Kern Sibbald wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> For some time now, I haven't really been happy with the Bacula patch 
> procedure. Basically, when we fix a bug (either from a bug report or 
> ourselves), we usually generate a patch, post it to the bug report, if any, 
> and upload it to the Bacula patches area of Source Forge.
> 
> Providing you are subscribed to the bugs database and to the bacula-patches 
> release notification on Source Forge, you will see these patches and can 
> apply them if you deem necessary.
> 
> The problems I have with this is that some people may not know about patches 
> (we see this in bug reports where a problem is already resolved with a 
> patch), and there is no formal mechanism for developers when generating a 
> patch.
> 
> We already have more work than we can handle, so any change needs to be 
> simple 
> and not time consuming for developers, but I am wondering if anyone has 
> suggestions how to improve this.  I can think of a few:
> 
> 1. Change nothing (signing up for bugs and patch notification is already not
>     bad).

I doesn't know about the path notification process, I will check my account in 
mantis ..
> 2. Announce patches to the bacula-devel list
> 3. Announce patches to the bacula-devel list and the bacula-users list

> 4. Announce patches to the bacula-announce list as well as the other two
>     lists.
Sure It would be a +

> 5. Put patches in the news (time consuming and I doubt that many read news).
> 6. Create an rss feed (I doubt that many users use rss, and this also could be
>     time consuming).
Don't think they are the most necessary.
> 
> If anyone else has ideas we would like to hear them.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Kern
> 




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     Bruno Friedmann


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