Third party Patch Manager

[Dennis Brown]

Alex,

Very good idea, and well put!
Where did you get that brain of yours?
Do you have a URL where I can download one like it?
Perhaps I could just download a patch for mine :^)

Dennis

On Jul 15, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> I think we could satisfy the needs with a scheme like the following :
>
> Someone hosts a site that collects a list of known patches. (I'll  
> happily volunteer to do this,  it's about time I used some of my  
> web space for something useful - though in some ways it would be  
> better if it were hosted by one of the already well-known sites  
> like Ken or Richard (or revJournal ??))
>
> The list consists of, for each patch,
> author, date, URL for the patch, description, version it was  
> written for, Bugzilla number, fixed-in version
>
> Note the most important part of that is the Bugzilla number -  
> either of a bug report or enhancement request. This ensures that  
> RunRev are aware of the need (desire) for a change, and provides a  
> reliable mechanism to verify whether the feature (or fix) has been  
> incorporated into a later release.  The "fixed-in version" can be  
> filled in later, based on the changes in the BZ database when a new  
> release comes out.
>
> The list of patches could be accessed via web browser, or via a  
> small stack (again, I'll write this if there is interest .... but I  
> won't be doing that until mid-August onwards). The stack would pick  
> up any updates from the URL, allow the user to mark which patches  
> she has applied to which version on which machines, etc.
>
> So at any time you could go run this stack, and determine if there  
> are patches you'll need to apply to a new version, or whether there  
> are new patches.
>
> The quality of the patches would be entirely up to the author of  
> any patch - no judgment to be applied by the list-holder.
>
> The patches remain on the author's own web-site - and hence can be  
> withdrawn, updated, or otherwise changed. Optionally, they could  
> also be uploaded to the patch-list site, e.g. if the author didn't  
> have web space available.