What are you doing next Friday?

[Daniel Holbach]

Hello,

On 27.02.2012 21:05, Serge Hallyn wrote:
> Would it be better to just make the changes, submit them (in my case,
> as I likely don't have upload rights, do a new merge request in place
> of theirs), and explain to them for next time what to do?
> 
> Even as I type this I keep going back and forth between thinking the
> contributor would hate that or would prefer that.

What I tend to do is add a changelog entry in the name of the
contributor, edit-patch the patch, pastebin the resulting debdiff and
link to documents which explain dch and edit-patch usage.

The benefits of this approach are: we get the patch in quickly, the
contributor gets information about how to do it (and some background
reading the docs) and has an example to compare their work with.

Personally I found this the best compromise and it usually does not take
very long.

Have a great day,
 Daniel

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