Re: Re: Making git and svn repos synchronised

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:17, Franck Bui <franck.bui <at> mandriva.com> wrote:
> Pascal Terjan <pterjan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:09, Franck Bui <franck.bui <at> mandriva.com> wrote:
>>> Pascal Terjan <pterjan <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 09:39, Franck Bui <franck.bui <at> mandriva.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>> The main point is that all the kernel team need to be aware of what
>>>>> changes are going to happen to the kernel. And if by any chances, one
>>>>> person of that team might spot something then it's a win for all of us.
>>>>
>>>> kernel commits are already sent to kernel <at> mandriva.com and it has been
>>>> discussed for years to get rid of this internal alias and use only
>>>> this list
>>>> http://svn.mandriva.com/viewvc/config/svn/packages/conf/mailer.conf?revision=1154&view=markup#l343
>>>>
>>>> There is usually some time between the commit and the submit of the kernel
>>>>
>>>
>>> But that's too late since the commit already happened.
>>
>> Too late for what?
>> What is wrong in having another commit fixing the first one?
>>
>
> Well, isn't simply better to correct the patch in the first place ?
>

Other parts of the distribution work like this (commit and people get
notified), and kernel did so far. I think this allows to move faster.
Of course before doing any big change (other than fixing a driver,
adding one, updating a patch...) there should be discussion, but then
it will not be a patch.