Add patchbot to the developers guide

[mstreng]

Add a link to the patchbot wiki in the developers guide (see this thread).

CC: @jdemeyer

Component: documentation

Keywords: patchbot, buildbot, bot, trac, developers guide

Author: Marco Streng

Reviewer: André Apitzsch

Merged: sage-4.6.2.alpha4

Issue created by migration from https://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/10702

[mstreng]

Author: Marco Streng

[mstreng]

Changed keywords from none to patchbot, buildbot, bot, trac, developers guide

[a-andre]

Reviewer: André Apitzsch

[a-andre]

comment:2

It looks good to me.

[jdemeyer]

comment:3

Marco: please fix the commit message of your patch (use hg qrefresh -e for that).

[mstreng]

Attachment: trac_10702-patchbot-doc.patch.gz

[mstreng]

comment:4

What do you mean by "fix"? Is it ok now? That was a lot of work for just removing "[mq]: " (of which I don't know where it came from or what it means).

[jdemeyer]

comment:5

Replying to @mstreng:

What do you mean by "fix"? Is it ok now? That was a lot of work for just removing "[mq]: " (of which I don't know where it came from or what it means).

Yes, it looks okay now. The [mq] stands for "Mercurial queue". By default the commit message comes from the argument to hg qnew. But in Sage, we like to have "proper" informative commit messages (also, including the ticket number on the first line).

Why was it a lot of work, what did you do?

[mstreng]

comment:6

Replying to @jdemeyer:

Why was it a lot of work, what did you do?

log in to a machine that has Sage, copy patch location, hg qimport, hg qapply, hg qrefresh -e, remove "[mq]: " from the commit message, hg export, copy patch to office pc, log in to trac, upload patch, tick needs_review, click Submit

All that to remove four characters from a commit message.

Why couldn't I just edit the patch to remove those 4 characters? Would it have screwed up some kind of checksum?

[jdemeyer]

Merged: sage-4.6.2.alpha4