[Lazarus] Merge requests vs patches on issues?

[Maxim Ganetsky]

08.05.2024 23:33, Zoë Peterson via lazarus пишет:
> Is there a preferred submission style for patches?  That is, is one of 
> these better/easier for the maintainers than the others?
> 
> 1) Create issue, then create merge request referencing issue
> 2) Create merge request with bug details as part of the merge request 
> submission (or in commit message?)
> 3) Create issue and include raw patch
> 
> Also, should we preemptively tag the appropriate maintainer?
> 
> I've done #2 twice now, and I see that in the merged one the GitLab UI 
> makes it fairly easy to view the original merge request where I included 
> more details and a sample project, but I could see the lack of an "issue 
> #1234" in the commit message making it more annoying to refer back to.

Generally I prefer #2. But #1 can be warranted sometimes too, yes. It 
should be decided individually for each case.

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