[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#648779: [PATCH] added new homepage for upstream

Francesca Ciceri madamezou at zouish.org
Fri May 16 21:00:23 UTC 2014


Hi, 

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 06:49:49AM +0200, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Francesca Ciceri (madamezou at zouish.org):
> 
> > Also, to clarify: so when patches are this trivial it's ok for me to
> > just commit them directly in the repo if the package is maintained under
> > the pkg-fonts umbrella? Without asking the main maintainer/uploader?
> > I really don't want to step on someone else's toes :).
> 
> If the fonts are in git, they're team-maintained...:-). So, as a team
> member you're "allowed" to do whatever you think is good.
> 
> Anyway, commits are mailed to the pkg-fonts-commits mailing list, so
> any of us can review them.

Ok, I must admit that I prefer to err on caution when I'm doing new
things. This is why sometimes I ask many questions.
And this remembers me: thanks everyone in the team for your patience and
super useful replies! They're greatly appreciated :)


> > And another doubt: do I need to add an entry in the changelog each time
> > I commit a patch (and/or change something) or is this something will be
> > take care when preparing the next release?
> > Also: does it make sense to add a changelog entry for such trivial changes?
> 
> 
> Yes, please. We don't have any automated way, as of now, to generated
> changelog entries from commit messages.
> 
> Also, changing debian/changelog with an UNRELEASED entry is a good way
> to send out the message "there is some pending stuff that's not yet
> uploaded, in git, for that particular package".
> 
> I might, in some unknown future, setup something to monitor these and
> avoid leaving un-uploaded things sleep for ages in git without being
> uploaded (something I'm doing right now in D-I and works fairly well).
> 
Ok, I've added the entries for the patch I applied (in fonts-ecolier and
fonts-junicode). And now back to triaging some bugs: there are lots of
low hanging fruits among fonts related bugs!

Cheers and thanks again,
Francesca

-- 
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