Patch Pilot Report 2011-10-25

[Scott Kitterman]

On 10/26/2011 10:07 AM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Hi Scott (2011.10.26_16:01:15_+0200)
>>> One tool to rule them all. ;)
>> It's probably a somewhat archaic view, but that's not a very Unix
>> like approach to the problem.  If I was going to work on syncing a
>> package, I'd expect the tool for syncing packages to be the one I
>> wanted to use ...
>
> But there's a big overlap in functionality. Reviewing a merge and a sync
> both require test building, and a having a quick look at the diff and
> new changelog entries.
>
> Also, native syncs can't indicate sponsorship, yet (LP: #827555), so
> syncpackage isn't much help.

For sponsoring, sure, but for your own uploads, not so much.

I should probably remember I'm on break from Ubuntu development and not 
get sucked into this, but I'll just throw out the idea that if 
sponsor-patch is doing the job, then the issue isn't one of can/can't, 
but where the functionality should most properly reside.

Scott K