Patches for trivial bugs sitting in bugzilla -> trivial patch policy?

[Marcela Mašláňová]

On 26/06/14 22:33, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:01:05 -0500
> Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2014-06-26 11:17, Richard Hughes wrote:
>>> On 26 June 2014 17:02, Simone Caronni <negativo17 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> +1 from me!
>>>
>>> If it's a trivial patch then I think it makes sense to just do it.
>>>   From someone that touches hundreds of different projects every
>>> month, I've found it's better to ask forgiveness than permission :)
>>
>> As previously stated, that only works if you are a provenpackager.
>> The question is for those of us who are not, but are trying to help.
>>
>> This seems to be particularly needed around mass rebuilds, which IMHO
>> should be an "all-hands-on-deck" time.  For example, I've been going
>> through the sizable F21FTBFS list[1][2], looking for arm-specific
>> bugs and fixing what else I can along the way.  So far most of my
>> ~100 patches are just bitrotting in bugzilla, while branching is less
>> than two weeks away.
>>
>> As a newcomer to Fedora development, is there something else I should
>> doing to get these patches reviewed and committed?
>
> I'm pretty swamped, but I'm happy to go through them as time permits
> and help apply/build them.
>
> I assume they are attached to each of the FTBFS bugs?
>
> If other provenpackgers have time it would be great to apply these
> before branching.
>
> kevin
>
>
>
I'm not sure if it's so great idea for all bugzillas. Some packagers 
prefer to add patches first into upstream then carry a patch for many 
releases.

FTBFS bugs are different, I guess it's okay to fix them immediately. It 
can hardly do more harm.

Marcela