What are you doing next Friday?

[Evan Broder]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Bryce Harrington <bryce at canonical.com> wrote:
> Basically the items all need forwarded upstream and/or wrapped up in
> debian packaging properly.  I'd only display them if the item includes
> debdiff (or has a branch merge proposal that includes a debian/changelog
> entry, if that can be detected).  Needless to say, the add_quickless
> procedures should be amended to include a packaging step (for which I'm
> sure you know of a suitable doc.)

This is something of a separate discussion, and I don't think it
applies specifically to the quicklist items since they have other
issues, but I did want to address it since you brought it up.

We should encourage good habits like writing changelogs and quilt
patches, but we shouldn't do it at the cost of accepting the
contribution at all. It's easy for a sponsor (who's obviously an
experienced Ubuntu developer in their own right) to spend the 60
seconds it takes to reformat the patches themselves, and it refocuses
the discussion on the actual content of the change instead of the
nitpicky details around our packaging processes. The only reason I can
think of not to do this is if you can't come up with the necessary
provenance information for the quilt header on your own.

When we see bare patches in the queue, we should be willing to
quilt-ify them, add a changelog, and upload, then point the
contributor at the docs so they can do it themselves next time. I
usually use http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/udd-patchsys.html#develop-your-patch
and http://developer.ubuntu.com/packaging/html/debian-dir-overview.html#the-changelog

- Evan