Hi, I'm Roland Mas. I'm interested in helping reducing the amount of patches available in Bugzilla, so I'm trying to make it easier for developers to merge them, and for users to test them. I'm trying a few different approaches for that goal.
First, I'm trying to do some reviewing of the pending patches. See if they still apply to trunk, port them if needed, clean them up (including for coding style guidelines), test them and see if they fix the bug (or add the feature) without breaking anything else. The results of this reviewing are in Bugzilla.
Then, in order to make it easier for people to test patches, I hand-picked a few patches, and I merged them into a Bazaar branch which I maintain locally (and publically). I call that my "superpatch" branch, and I keep it up-to-date with the SVN trunk, so people who want to test several patches at once can use it. I also provide unofficial Debian packages for that superpatch branch, so even non-technical users can help testing. A detailed explanation of my setup is available on the mailing-list archives, see http://mail.gnome.org/archives/f-spot-list/2008-January/msg00035.html
The current (2008-03-24) list of patches included in the superpatch branch is:
- 321596 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321596): Allow removing the files from their source after importing.
- 339082 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=339082): "Add current version as a new photo" menu item.
- 401841 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401841): Fix image ordering in import dialog.
- 479225 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=479225): Sort "Remove tag" list.
- 505570 (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505570): Stop shipping extra copies of the apps icons.
Finally, since it's not much more work, I also provide unofficial Debian packages for pure SVN trunk.
The APT repository for pure SVN is at http://people.debian.org/~lolando/debian/unstable/; for superpatch, at http://people.debian.org/~lolando/debian/experimental/
