On Saturday 23 September 2006 19:24, Kai Blin wrote:
On WineConf, we decided against this. That would still slow down the overall patch submission speed. Consider you have a patch that's just fine, but before you sent that, I sent in ten patches with C++ style comments. Alexandre would now have to reply to ten patches with "No C++ style comments" before processing your patch. Everybody reading wine-patches could point out what was wrong with my patches.
All this points to is a need to automate - sending this reply should be a one-click action. In fact this particular one (and no doubt many others) could be done by a reply-bot.
Other things that could be done by a reply-bot:
unacceptable patch format no patch found in message missing ChangeLog
Perhaps a reply-bot should send out a copy of the guidelines the first time a new contributor submits something to wine-patches (or even to existing contributors when there have been changes to the guidelines).