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Re: Comments on Patching GCC
Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:
> I have to wonder if a patch tracking system wouldn't be a better way
> of handling patches.
I think a patch tracking system would be quite useful for gcc. It
would of course need some manual guidance.
An interim approach would be a to have a few "patch shepherds" who
would manage the patch queue, direct the attention of appropriate
maintainers to new patches, and ping about patches which were being
ignored. I think the project has done surprisingly well with the
volunteer bugmasters. Would it be possible to have volunteer
patchmasters as well?
Ian