Re: Packaging Jami progress

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi Jan,

Thank you for working on Jami. Cool!


On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 at 20:09, Jan <tona_kosmicznego_smiecia@interia.pl> wrote:
>
> I just closed all 22 issues that I improperly started. How should I
> send the patches to create just one issue? When git send-email asks me
> if I want to send the patches, should I send only one and then wait?
> How long? I tried sending the rest a few seconds later, but it didn't
> work as indended. Or should I send one mail to guix-patches@gnu.org and
> then send the rest to NNN@debbugs.gnu.org?


I copy/paste what I wrote here [1], waiting to improve the manual or
the cookbook.


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The next step is to commit the changes. In this case, three commits
(one per package) seem nice. Give a look to previous commits as
example of commit message (ChangeLog format, etc.). Now, it is time to
prepare the submission:

  git format-patch --cover-letter -o patches master

this will create the 3 patches in the folder patches/ and one cover
letter. Edit the cover letter to describe what the patches are about
then submit it to the bug tracker:

  git send-email --to=guix-patches@gnu.org patches/0000-cover-letter.patch

Wait the answer to the bug tracker.
You should receive an email (if your .gitconfig is ok) with the bug
number. Last submit the patches:

  git send-email --to=ABCDEF@debbugs.gnu.org patches/000{1,2,3}-*

where ABCDEF is the bug number.
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You can also run:

  rm patches/0000-cover-letter.patch
  git send-email --to=ABCDEF@debbugs.gnu.org patches/00*

to send all the patches to the bug number ABCDEF. Be careful to not
send twice the same patch. :-)
Then you can also send normal email to ABCDEF@debbugs.gnu.org to
discuss the patch.
And another version (say version 2) of the patch series is produced
with the git option --reroll-count=2 (in short -v2):

  git rebase -i / git amend / do your change
  git format-patch -v2
  git send-email --to=ABCDEF@debbugs.gnu.org patches/v2-000*


Note that you need to "guix install git:send-email".


Hope that helps.

All the best,
simon

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2019-10/msg00093.html