Re: RFC: DEP-3: Patch Tagging Guidelines
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:23:17AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> "Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> > above the patch? That works fine for me. Every formalisation has a cost
> > and I'm not sure here that it's offset by the (which?) benefits.
> Possible benefits (partly mentioned in the spec)
> - tools can be adapted/crafted to maintain these fields
> - streamline development practice to faciliate team communication
> - (web)tools can analyse and produce statistics
> I'm looking forward to see prototype implementations of tools that use
> patch files formatted this way.
I'd also add that having something like this often encourages people to
record the information that's standardised by virtue of providing a
blank to be filled in.
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