[dmd-internals] Submitting DMD patches?

[Jacob Carlborg]

Ok, thanks. I saw that link by Lars that's why I asked.

On 15 feb 2011, at 23:05, Jonathan M Davis wrote:

> On Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:36:01 Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>> If I have a patch for a DMD issue, what's the preferred way of submitting
>> that? Just attaching a diff in bugzilla? Fork the git repository and send
>> a pull request ? If I should send a pull request where should I send that,
>> to bugzilla, github or both ?
> 
> I believe that we're moving toward pull requests. So, you'd fork the repository 
> on github, make the changes, and the send a pull request via github (doing it on 
> a branch would mean that it would be nice and self-contained and that you could 
> do separate changes on other branches). That's certainly where we're going with 
> Phobos and druntime, and as far as I know, that's what Walter wants to start 
> happening for dmd as well, though he'll have to speak for himself on that count.
> 
> Certainly, dealing with a pull request is generally much cleaner than dealing 
> with a diff. Noting the pull request in bugzilla would still be a good idea 
> though.
> 
> Lars has created a Phobos contributor's guide which should be helpful (though 
> it's new and likely to be tweaked a bit): http://www.kyllingen.net/guide.html
> 
> - Jonathan M Davis
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/Jacob Carlborg