Wiki page for helping users send patches upstream

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Wed Mar 11 21:12:48 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:16 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Ok, I have converted this to a more efficient lookup mechanism from the
> > local repositories and added it to the kernel-ppa:
> >
> >    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/info/kernel-version-map.html
> >
> > It should basically look the same as your existing page.
> 
> Stashed a reference to this on the wireless ubuntu wiki. BTW any
> chance a third column might be added to indicate whether or not the
> kernel is in updates yet? I take if its not in updates it would then
> be in the proposed repository. For me this would be useful as if I
> deal with a user on a kernel only in updates but find the targeted
> kernel I want the user to try is in proposed I can just check that
> page and ask him to try.

Andy, I've attached a patch which should add this third column requested
by Luis.  It basically parses the output of rmadison to determine which
pocket a version of the kernel is in.  An example page can be seen at:

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/tmp/kernel-version-map.html

Thanks,
Leann

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