Fix for xc/programs/Xserver/hw/dmx/config/Imakefile / Re: CVSUpdate: xc (branch: trunk)

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 05:26:13PM +0100, Roland Mainz wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > Indeed, I've been advising Fabio -- sorry about that.  Do we need a
> > Bugzilla ID for all patches, or just 6.8.x candidates?
> 
> Technicially only for X11R6.8.x canidates bug having bug ids for all
> patches would help in other cases (see below).

OK.

> > Come to think of
> > it, this is probably an ideal 6.8.x candidate ... I blame being
> > jetlagged while I read the original discussion. ;)
> 
> Bugzilla is not only a bugreporting system, it can also be used for
> documentation and syncronisation across developers (e.g. think about
> bugzilla as a mailinglist system, one list per bugid). Right now it is
> not mandatory to use it but on the other side it isn't really a pain to
> capture a diff and put it into a bugzilla bug (you do _not_ have to
> write a essay with 2000 words to describe the patch). It helps a lot if
> that patch should later be put into a branch or caused problems
> somewhere - then people can simply comment into that bug (reaching the
> developer directly and keeping all comments related to that patch
> together instead of being shattered over the whole mailinglist) instead
> of using this mailinglist.

I agree. :)

> Please _use_ bugzilla for new patches if possible. It helps a lot with
> keeping things under control. X.org gets more and more developers and
> right now it's becoming more and more difficult to keep things under
> control, track the changes which go in and handle regressions caused by
> checkins.

OK, I'll start integrating Bugzilla into my workflow, and I'll put up a
bug for the two previous commits later tonight (at an internet cafe now,
the window is open and my hands are *freezing*).  Thanks.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
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