The cost of contributing

[James Westby]

On (28/06/07 18:20), Aaron Bentley wrote:
> The next thing I plan to do with BB is implement vote-by-mail, since
> Robert won't use the web for voting.  Supporting message-body merge
> directives would come sometime after that.  But Bundle Buggy is open
> source, and patches are gratefully accepted.

Of course.

> 
> > With the workflow you propose I have to do the work, and make the
> > commit, then create the bundle, which takes a noticeable amount of time.
> 
> I have been working on fixing that.  With the new merge directive and
> bundle formats, I can generate your "Re: [MERGE] Bug #122656: better
> error message for bzr ann 'doesn't exist'" request in 1.687 seconds,
> rather than 5.175.

That is great news, and that will certainly make my complaints less
valid. I will run out of excuses for not submitting more patches then
though.

Thanks for your work on this.

> 
> > Yes, that is true. I try and write good commit messages, but sometimes
> > that wont be appropriate either.
> > 
> > If we were to have a command that made all of this easy, perhaps it
> > could fire up an editor for you to write the body of the message, much
> > like commit does.
> 
> I think just an editor isn't good enough.  I think we want to invoke the
> user's mail client.  Unfortunately, there's not a lot of
> standardization.  I know the Thunderbird invocation is something like
> 
> mozilla-thunderbird -compose attachment=file://NEWS
> 
> I have no idea about mutt.

The mail client is a good idea. There are other places we will be able
to look for a list of ways to do it.

mutt is 

  mutt -a file 

then something I forget.

The disadvantage with the mail client way is that you do have to wait
for the bundle before you can write the message. However with your work
on bundles that should be less of an issue, except for very large
submissions, but they will be quite rare anyway.

> 
> > Creating a 'send' like command that knew where to send
> > the changes, the preferred format, and gave you a one shot way of
> > submitting might be something to consider.
> 
> Oh, I wholeheartedly agree.  I've been encouraging people to write a
> slick "send" command.

I will try and write up a spec for it this weekend, so that we can have
a discussion on it, and then hopefully get this functionality.

Thanks,

James

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