Re: [PATCH] Require GMP 4.2 and MPFR 2.2

[Brooks Moses <bmoses at stanford dot edu>]

Kaveh R. Ghazi wrote:
> Eric is correct, your designation as a fortran maintainer is a step
> above and subsumes plain "write-after-approval".  Maintainers of
> particular parts of GCC have implicit "write-after-approval"
> everywhere else outside their domain.  So once someone who has checkin
> authority over the parts you touch approves a patch you can check it
> in.
>
> The policy is formalized under the "Localized write permission" here:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/svnwrite.html
>
> If you feel the language is ambiguous, please feel free to suggest
> something better.

I wouldn't say it's ambiguous, exactly, but I wouldn't necessarily have 
concluded that just from the language there.

Perhaps amending "They must get approval from the appropriate 
maintainers for changes elsewhere in the compiler" to "They must get 
approval from the appropriate maintainers for changes elsewhere in the 
compiler, and may check those in after approval" in the first paragraph 
under "Localized write permission" would be a useful clarification?

- Brooks