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

Dan HorĂ¡k dan at danny.cz
Fri Jun 27 08:05:31 UTC 2014


On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 17:53:08 -0500
Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 2014-06-26 15:33, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 13:01:05 -0500 Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> Or to the previously reported bugs (usually -Werror=format-security), 
> upon which they are now marked as dependent.  I tested the patches
> with mock before posting.
> 
> Here are my unreviewed patches from last week or earlier, oldest to
> newest:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106267
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037113
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106672
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106724
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037027
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106709
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106627
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037142
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106999
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106110
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107056
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106682
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105998
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107402
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106318
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037057
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107365
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106295
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106983
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037361
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107410
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107232
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037369
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106307
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106116
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105976
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037084
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106751
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037245
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107101
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106182
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105923
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107057
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107080
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037190
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105994
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105945
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106011
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106235
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107042
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106795
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106018
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037184
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037185
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037186
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037390
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037394
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107271
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106024
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106029
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037083
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1106247
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1107282
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037207
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037382
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037396
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1105990
> 
> > If other provenpackgers have time it would be great to apply these
> > before branching.

oh, that's an impressive list, but I would like see to one more thing
there - links to upstream bug reports where relevant (eg. fixing
configure stuff), because we usually need them fixed in upstreams too


		Dan


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