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Re: Maintainers list
- To: DJ Delorie <dj at delorie dot com>
- Subject: Re: Maintainers list
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 00:22:46 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, DJ Delorie wrote:
> * The contribute.html page should include an example email to use when
> following up to an unreviewed patch. Having a standard subject
> (example: "Follow-up to unreviewed patch") would make it easy for
> maintainers to catch it the second time around. It should also
> suggest subject line conventions for the initial patch, like
> "[patch] file.c file.h" so that the maintainers can quickly
> determine if they should respond to it.
Having some conventions for Subjects makes sense. Many of us already do
something like that, but informally, like tagging C++ patches or listing
filenames affected by the patch.
I don't think we should be too strict, but some recommendations might
be useful. Concrete suggestions, anyone?
> I had also thought of a program that monitored gcc-patches and tried
> to guess when a patch went unreviewed, but the technical hurdles are
> pretty high for something like that.
If you can get this to work (more or less), a reminder bot might make
sense, though it certainly is not trivial to implement that.
I also made a suggestion in http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2000-07/msg00783.html
but have not received any response yet. :-(
Gerald
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