Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities

From	SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities
Date	2017-05-21 12:50 +0200
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>> How do you think about to resolve them by additional means besides mail exchange?
> 
> That can work.

I am curious to find out which other communication means could really help here.


> E.g. meeting at conferences often solved mail communication problems.

I find my resources too limited at the moment to attend conferences on site.

How are the chances for further clarification by ordinary telephone calls?


> For now, I still wonder why you were unsure about grouping the changes
> into one patch?

I am varying the patch granularity for affected software areas to some degree.
But I came also places along where I got an impression for higher uncertainty.


> Maybe there is something to be learned?

This is also generally possible.

Would you like to extend the scope for the change pattern around questionable
error messages from a single source file to whole subsystem trees in Linux?

Regards,
Markus

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[PATCH 3/3] zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-21 10:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/3] zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory  allocation in zswap_dstmem_prepare() Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-21 10:50 +0200
    Re: zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in  zswap_dstmem_prepare() SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-21 11:50 +0200
      Re: zswap: Delete an error message for a failed memory allocation in  zswap_dstmem_prepare() Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-21 12:00 +0200
        Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-21 12:20 +0200
          Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de> - 2017-05-21 12:30 +0200
            Re: Using best practices for big software change possibilities SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net> - 2017-05-21 12:50 +0200

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