On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 17:48:08 +0200, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
Hmmm, so it can (unfortunately) happen that a patch is 'forgotten'
Yes that does happen sometimes. It's up to the author to resubmit it.
Alternatively sometimes a patch is correct but can't be applied for other reasons, like my lockwindowupdate patch or systray patch.
Oh, well.. I actually ment to compare 'one person with CVS write permissions' to 'multiple persons with CVS write permissions'.
In the past, (open source) projects I worked on had multiple persons with CVS write access to the repository.
That is more typical yes.
Related to the kernel, some people keep their 'personal' tree (like -mm, -ac, etc) that can be used to structurally test certain patches, etc and then subsequently patches can be gradially merged from these trees to the 'official main tree' (after some testing).
Is this something that also would work for wine? --- Jeroen
Maybe, that is what arch was all about, but it's not really mature enough to work well in Wine yet I think.
External patchsets might happen at some point, I don't know. I think most people are happy with the current system.