This is the mail archive of the
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: PATCH for Re: web page starting to show its age
- From: Janis Johnson <janis187 at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Cc: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:37:25 -0800
- Subject: Re: PATCH for Re: web page starting to show its age
- References: <200210040121.g941Lhu04592@piper.synopsys.com> <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210041520310.24321-100000@naos.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 03:27:22PM +0200, Gerald Pfeifer wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Joe Buck wrote:
> > There are several things about the web page gcc.gnu.org that are beginning
> > to show their age and should be revised. Take the first paragraph:
> > [...]
> > I can try to think up some new text to go here, but others may have ideas.
>
> I also stumbled across that repeatedly, but never found a good
> replacement, so I'd certainly welcome any suggestions!
How's this? (Yes, I'm now a web page maintainer, but I'm not going to
make this change without running it by people first).
Janis
Index: index.html
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.340
diff -u -r1.340 index.html
--- index.html 30 Oct 2002 16:49:47 -0000 1.340
+++ index.html 30 Oct 2002 21:32:54 -0000
@@ -10,14 +10,16 @@
<h1><small>Welcome to the GCC home page!</small></h1>
-<p>In April 1999, the egcs steering committee was appointed by the FSF
-as the official GNU maintainer for GCC. At that time GCC was renamed
-from the "GNU C Compiler" to the "GNU Compiler Collection" and received
-a new <a href="gccmission.html">mission statement</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Currently GCC contains front ends for C, C++, Objective C, Fortran,
+<p>GCC is the GNU Compiler Collection, which currently contains
+front ends for C, C++, Objective C, Fortran,
<a href="java/">Java</a>, and Ada, as well as libraries for these
languages (<a href="libstdc++/">libstdc++</a>, libgcj,...).</p>
+
+<p>Major decisions about GCC are made by the <a href="steering.html">
+steering committee</a>, guided by the <a href="gccmission.html">
+mission statement</a>. That group began as the egcs steering
+committee and in April 1999 was appointed by the FSF as the official
+GNU maintainer for GCC.
<p>We encourage everyone to <a href="contribute.html">contribute changes</a>
and help testing GCC, and we provide access to our development sources with