Re: A few patches to wwwstat #2
Tomas Pospisek (tpo@spin.ch)
Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:26:50 +0000 (GMT)
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
> Thanks for posting the patch, but I strongly recommend against
> changing the Version or the CHANGES file. The reason is that
> it makes it nearly impossible to combine patches from others, since
> everyone would need to change those. In addition, it would interfere
> with any later "official" assignment of the same version number.
OK, I understand, sorry I'm a newbe in releasing patches/soft into the world
wide internet and I'll stick to that.
> It is better to simply include comments in the patch file that
> describe the changes. Also, if the individual changes are separable,
> it is better to use separate patch files.
Kinda pain to test things separately in a productive environment :(
> In theory, it should be possible to organize changes into a pot
> and then let everyone on the list vote on which to include in the
> next official release. This is essentially how the Apache Group works,
> but wwwstat is a much smaller scale project. The list membership is
> now large enough to perform a good review of suggested changes, but
> it will require someone to organize the patches and the votes.
I don't see too many patches here on the list ( well as I said, I'm a
newbe here), so I wonder wether including the few patches that come along
shold need any voting (low trafic here anyway) at all. Others please comment.
> I can generate new official releases once people decide on the changes,
> but that's about the limit of what time I have available to spend on wwwstat.
I can very well understand that -
thanks,
+
T
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