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Submitting a patch

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Jordi Salvat i ...
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What's the preferred way to submit a patch for the compiler?

I have a combined fix for:

SI-5040 Behaviour of scala.Dynamic depends on implementation details
of superclasses
SI-5039 scala.Dynamic documentation is incorrect
SI-4536 Dynamic is broken.

Should I post a patch in Jira or should I rather use github?

extempore
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Re: Submitting a patch

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jordi Salvat i Alabart
wrote:
> Should I post a patch in Jira or should I rather use github?

Github. Also you could make my life a lot easier by being sure to
include test cases and by making sure the test suite passes. (Maybe
this sounds obvious, but at least 80% of patches submitted do not
compile, have no tests, and/or break tests.)

Jordi Salvat i ...
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User offline. Last seen 42 years 45 weeks ago.
Re: Submitting a patch

It is obvious to me...

But I've been hiring in my team and only 2 candidates out of about 25
I've phone-screened had ever used unit tests in real life. I'm
disappointed that the scala world is not any better than PHP :-(

On 1 Oct, 04:57, Paul Phillips wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Jordi Salvat i Alabart
>
> wrote:
> > Should I post a patch in Jira or should I rather use github?
>
> Github.  Also you could make my life a lot easier by being sure to
> include test cases and by making sure the test suite passes.  (Maybe
> this sounds obvious, but at least 80% of patches submitted do not
> compile, have no tests, and/or break tests.)

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