Re: Proposed changes to the commit policy

[Andreas Enge]

Hello,

Am Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 10:24:56AM +0100 schrieb Simon Tournier:
> > Am Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 04:54:58PM +0000 schrieb Kaelyn:
> >> On a side note, I'd recently discovered the flag to pass. To have a
> >>subject prefix like "[PATCH core-updates]" (as mentioned in the manual
> >>for staging and core-updates patches) instead of the default "[PATCH]",
> >>one can pass "--subject-prefix="PATCH core-updates" to git
> >>format-patch. 
> > This sounds like it could be a useful addition to the QA process.
> To my knowledge, it is not possible to continuously build core-updates
> because the project does not have enough resource (both human power and
> machine power).

ah right, that is unfortunate.

> Or do you mean mentioning this option of git-format-patch under point #9
> of «Submitting Patches» [4]?  Because this option is already in the
> manual under «Sending a Patch Series» section:
> 
>      Tip: To add a prefix to the subject of your patch, you may use the
>      ‘--subject-prefix’ option.  The Guix project uses this to specify
>      that the patch is intended for a branch or repository other than
>      the ‘master’ branch of
>      <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git>.
> 
>           git send-email -1 -a --base=auto \
>               --subject-prefix='PATCH core-updates' \
>               --to=guix-patches@gnu.org

Okay, I did not notice this; so if this is already implemented, even better!

On the other subject, I just updated mpfr and mpc on core-updates, and hope
that everything will build (with reason, the changes to these projects are
rather conservative in general).

Andreas