Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Commit Policy

[Sebastian Luther <SebastianLuther@gmx.de>]

Am 10.01.2014 11:35, schrieb Brian Dolbec:
> First off.  Welcome and than you for responding to help with
> portage.
> 
> With this many people, we should be able to make good progress
> without overloading any one person.
> 
> General rule is to submit all patches to this list for review and 
> approval before committing.
> 
> Remember to do these always: 1) run pyflakes on your changes to
> check for faults, misssing imports, variables undefined,...
> 
> 2) run the testsuite to check for breakage.  It is in the base
> directory called runtests.sh.  Please try to test it with all
> minimum supported python versions, but if you have pypy, and some
> others, then great.
> 
> 3) any new code that could break things, make a test for it if at
> all possible.
> 
> 
> The general exception for patch submittal is for trivial changes
> such as typo fixes, etc..
> 
> It will take a bit of time for everyone to acclimate themselves
> into our new team.  So, I was thinking we give it 2 months, then
> hold an election for lead in March.  Is that alright with
> everyone?
> 
> Thanks
> 

One more useful thing:

Put this in ~/.gitconfig:
[color]
	ui = auto

This way git diff will use colors, including highlighting of trailing
whitespace.