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authorRobert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>2023-06-27 15:56:54 +0200
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2023-06-27 15:56:54 +0200
commit4920af40fce2c56ae2c4fd08ad1ff8b6f1dc80b1 (patch)
treed1f0e5009d0e84d10cce6b22ef0f50634e3414c0 /doc
parentbc152fd1c1194099c610bce9d30f1bc9fd3cc09e (diff)
doc/reviewing-contributions: Add points about patches
A weaker version of https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/186484#issuecomment-1608960696
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@@ -62,6 +62,8 @@ Sample template for a package update review is provided below.
 - [ ] package build on ARCHITECTURE
 - [ ] executables tested on ARCHITECTURE
 - [ ] all depending packages build
+- [ ] patches have a comment describing either the upstream URL or a reason why the patch wasn't upstreamed
+- [ ] patches that are remotely available are fetched with `fetchpatch`
 
 ##### Possible improvements
 
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ Sample template for a new package review is provided below.
 - [ ] source is fetched using the appropriate function
 - [ ] the list of `phases` is not overridden
 - [ ] when a phase (like `installPhase`) is overridden it starts with `runHook preInstall` and ends with `runHook postInstall`.
+- [ ] patches have a comment describing either the upstream URL or a reason why the patch wasn't upstreamed
 - [ ] patches that are remotely available are fetched with `fetchpatch`
 
 ##### Possible improvements