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I completely botched up the merged[0] rST conversion of this document by
accidentally dropping entire hunks (!) of text. :-( I made it very hard
for reviewers to spot it, as the omitted text was buried deep in the
document. To fix my hatchet job, I reconverted the "SubmitAPatch"
wiki[1] page from scratch and replaced the existing rST with it, while
making sure I incorporated previous feedback.
In summary, in this reconverted edition:
- I did a careful (to the extent my eyes allowed) para-by-para
comparison of the wiki and the rST to make sure I didn't omit
anything accidentally.
- I made sure to work in the cosmetic feedback[2] that Thomas Huth
pointed out in the merged (and botched) edition:
- fix the hyperlinks in "Split up long patches"
- replace ".". with "does not end with a dot" (in "Write a meaningful
commit message" section)
- replace "---" with ``---`` so that it doesn't render as an em-dash
(there were two other occurrences; I fixed those too)
- Use "QEMU" spelling consistently in prose usage
- Add a consistent "refer to git-config" link where appropriate
Thanks to Thomas Huth and Alex Bennée for noticing it on IRC. And sorry
for my sloppiness.
Fixes: 9f73de8df033 ("docs: rSTify the "SubmitAPatch" wiki")
[0] https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/9f73de8df033
[1] https://wiki.qemu.org/index.php?title=Contribute/SubmitAPatch&oldid=10387
[2] https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-11/msg03600.html
Signed-off-by: Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211119193118.949698-2-kchamart@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
[thuth: Some more cosmetical changes, fixed links from external to internal]
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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.. _trivial-patches:
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Trivial Patches
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===============
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Overview
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--------
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Trivial patches that change just a few lines of code sometimes languish
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on the mailing list even though they require only a small amount of
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review. This is often the case for patches that do not fall under an
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actively maintained subsystem and therefore fall through the cracks.
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The trivial patches team take on the task of reviewing and building pull
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requests for patches that:
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- Do not fall under an actively maintained subsystem.
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- Are single patches or short series (max 2-4 patches).
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- Only touch a few lines of code.
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**You should hint that your patch is a candidate by CCing
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qemu-trivial@nongnu.org.**
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Repositories
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------------
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Since the trivial patch team rotates maintainership there is only one
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active repository at a time:
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- git://github.com/vivier/qemu.git trivial-patches - `browse <https://github.com/vivier/qemu/tree/trivial-patches>`__
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Workflow
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--------
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The trivial patches team rotates the duty of collecting trivial patches
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amongst its members. A team member's job is to:
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1. Identify trivial patches on the development mailing list.
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2. Review trivial patches, merge them into a git tree, and reply to state
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that the patch is queued.
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3. Send pull requests to the development mailing list once a week.
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A single team member can be on duty as long as they like. The suggested
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time is 1 week before handing off to the next member.
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Team
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----
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If you would like to join the trivial patches team, contact Laurent
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Vivier. The current team includes:
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- `Laurent Vivier <mailto:laurent@vivier.eu>`__
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