[fpc-devel] Stream bug fixes & refactoring - multiple tickets & patches or one?

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 24 May 2011, Chad Berchek wrote:

> Hi all. This is my first message here.
>
> I ran across some bugs working with TInputPipeStream. As I investigated 
> further, I found more and more bugs in various stream classes throughout the 
> RTL and FCL. I have fixed the ones I found and made some structural 
> modifications to help prevent such errors from happening again. I can submit 
> a patch. I also have code for test cases.
>
> What I want to ask is: what is the best way to submit an issue to the bug 
> tracker and submit the patch for review? Would it be better to create 
> multiple tickets, one for each distinct bug, or just create one? As for the 
> patch, it would be best if I could keep it as one, since many of the changes 
> are interrelated and it wouldn't necessarily make sense to make one 
> particular change associated with one specific bug. But I suppose I could 
> also create one patch linked with multiple tickets. There are probably a 
> dozen distinct bugs, but many overlap. Please advise me on how things are 
> done here. Thanks.

Multiple tickets, please, and you can use the 'related to' feature of the
bugtracker to link them together.

Michael.