Re: [Boost-maint] [EXTERNAL] PING: Another patch request

Subject: Re: [Boost-maint] [EXTERNAL] PING: Another patch request
From: Daniela Engert (dani_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-02-06 12:00:03

Am 06.02.2014 15:04 schrieb Marshall Clow:
> On Feb 6, 2014, at 4:29 AM, Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 2:44 AM, Ahmed Charles <acharles_at_[hidden]> wrote:
>
>>>> Someone proposes a change, others review it.
>>>> But it won’t work if no one looks at other people’s changes.
>>> I got the mail, but there wasn't a patch attached, otherwise I would've
>>> looked at it.
>> IIRC, the oddly named GitHub "Gist" mechanism gives us a place to put
>> patches if passing them around as attachments is too cumbersome.
>>
>>  could document how this works. I'm totally tied up for the
>>
> If someone else wants to document it, that would be great.
>
Well, what's wrong with good ol' pull requests? This mechanism seems to
work really well and I've been following this path a few times in the
recent past when contributing to signals2 (Frank Mori Hess) and
program_options (Vladimir Prus). Once you've opened a pull request from
a feature branch in your repository clone, you can discuss it, refine
it, and rebase it to 'develop' head until it's ready to be merged to
'develop'.

Ciao
Dani