Wiki page for helping users send patches upstream

[Luis R. Rodriguez]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 8:25 AM, Leann Ogasawara
<leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 09:24 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:56:30PM -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:34 -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
>> > > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:06 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> > > > Is there a map somewhere of the Ubuntu intrepid kernels to stable
>> > > > kernel release? That could come in very handy. I'd be nice to have
>> > > > that linked or in the Ubuntu Linux wireless page.
>> > >
>> > > This doesn't exist at the moment.  I'll try and put something together
>> > > and get back to you.
>> >
>> > I wrote a script to generate the Ubuntu kernel to upstream kernel
>> > version mapping:
>> >
>> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/kernel-version-map.html
>> >
>> > It shows mappings for Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy.  I set up a daily
>> > cron so it should automatically update for any new release.  It's not
>> > yet available as a wiki, but I'll let you know when I have it auto
>> > updating a wiki page.
>>
>> This page rocks.  This should probabally be an official part of the
>> kernel team information.  It would likely make sense to have this in the
>> kernel-ppa web site?  If you could send me the script I could look at
>> including it.
>
> I think it would be great if this were under the kernel-ppa site rather
> than my own directory.  I've attached the script I used.  It's a bit of
> a hack so feel free to clean it up :)  It's also not efficient because
> we should only need to get the existing version mapping once and then
> just update for any new release.  Anyways, let me know when this is
> available from http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa and I'll turn off my
> cron and redirect to the new page.

This is awesome, how difficult would it be to add if the kernel
package is in 'proposed' or 'updates' repository? I guess We'd just
need if its in 'updates' yet, otherwise it can be assumed its in
'proposed' ?

  Luis