BCP for patch submittal

[Matt Mackall]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 05:44:22PM -0400, Jason Orendorff wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Micah Cowan <micah at cowan.name> wrote:
> > Peter Arrenbrecht wrote:
> > > Using mq might be a solution. I at first had my reservations, but by
> > > now I just plain love it.
> >
> > Yes... but doesn't it steepen the learning-curve fairly substantially
> > for folks just wanting to submit a few bugfixes or whatever? I'm not
> > sure I want to recommend that as a standard practice for casual
> > developers (this is a public, Free Software project).
> 
> The answer to about a third of the questions on this list, and well
> over half the questions I get casually from newbies, is "use MQ".  I
> don't know if you're doing anybody any favors by withholding that
> answer.

There are some things that mq makes substantially easier and serious
developers should definitely acquaint themselves with it, but it's
hardly necessary. I myself only recently began using it regularly.

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