Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 02:12:28 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to handle forthcoming PR originator e-mail address Message-ID: <200703300212.28583.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <20070329212227.GB21724@kobe.laptop> References: <20070329153644.A55335@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20070329233045.T41831@atlantis.atlantis.dp.ua> <20070329212227.GB21724@kobe.laptop>
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On Thursday 29 March 2007 23:22:28 Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-03-29 23:40, Dmitry Pryanishnikov <dmitry@atlantis.dp.ua> wrote: > >On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>> I'm an originator of 4 open PRs and 9 closed ones. My e-mail address > >>> will change soon. How should I handle the change to stay reachable > >>> for people working on PRs? Sorry to bother the list with > >>> (seems-to-be) a trivial question, I can't find reply in PR-related > >>> articles. > >> > >> Point me to the PRs and I will use pr-edit to fix the email address. > > > > Thank you, Gabor Kovesdan has already done it. > > Nice. > > >> This can also be done by any FreeBSD committer with ssh access to the > >> FreeBSD cluster. > > > > I just thought that some kind of automatic tool should exist to > > accomplish originator's e-mail change. After all, people _do_ change > > their e-mails sometimes... > > Not really. Gnats is very flexible in this; it allows manual editing of > the bug report itself. This is also one of its relatively annoying > 'flaws' though. Care must be taken when bug reports are manually > modified by a committer, and there are not very many tools to automake Also by a submitter. I recently learnt this: Never steep so low as to try and modify the (attached) patch rather than rolling a new PR, pasting in the same old text, etc. However tempting when you are PR'ing a series of 20 or so. But it will always bite you in the butt at some point! Dan > stuff like what you wanted to do. > > Anyway, I'm glad this has been resolved now :) > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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