Re: where to send patches

[Wojciech Meyer <wojciech.meyer@googlemail.com>]

Hi Stefan,

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> Agreed.  It occurred to me that we could even tweak M-x report-emacs-bug
>>> so that it notices when the report includes something that looks like
>>> a patch, and adds the corresponding debbugs tag.
>> People like to use this damn [PATCH] convention, so some time ago I
>> tweaked debbugs.gnu.org to recognize that in the same way as "Tags:
>> patch".
>
> That's good, but I think we should try and recognize the patch itself as
> well, since many people don't put any [PATCH] in the subject either.

Another point is that some VCS allow to format the patch automatically
along with an e-mail and put [PATCH] in the e-mail's subject header. I
would say that git-send-mail and git-format-patch do this. I am not sure
if bzr does it. Many people use format-patch and just paste it to the
e-mail subject. The chapter in the manual describes the process well
however it's not saying anything about the subject of the e-mail.

Thanks,
Wojciech