Re: Call for volunteers: Patch Manager

["Daniel Shahaf" <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

TJ Luoma wrote on Thu, 18 Feb 2021 01:42 +00:00:
> 
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:30 PM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Just as well to have someone of known competence. I at least would have to learn the job on the
> > job. Still, it would be nice to be able to make some sort of contribution given all the help I've
> > received.
> 
> Exactly my thoughts. I wouldn't have known how to do the job, but I 
> would have been glad to do something to try to give back for all the 
> help I've received over the many years.

Hmm.  I appreciate the desire to give back, but I don't know how to
clarify the several descriptions I've already given.  Again, in
a nutshell, the patch manager (PM) should, at regular intervals, go
through [PATCH] threads and for each patch do:

case $state in
  (accepted-and-committed) :;;
  (rejected) :;;
  (not-yet-reviewed) ping;;
  (has-been-reviewed-and-is-awaiting-revised-submission) ping;;
  (*) DTRT;;
esac

As to other ways to help, well, how about writing documentation patches?
They're very helpful, and not hard to write.  See Doc/Zsh/*.yo.  (Custom
syntax highlighting for Vim is in the tree.)

> Still, glad to have someone who knows what they're doing take the helm!

Cheers,

Daniel