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Re: Comments on Patching GCC
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
I am not sure this is true in reality. Look at the last 100 patches
posted on gcc-patch. How many of them has bugzilla reference ?
Actually at this point, more than 50% of them do because users are
starting
to use 4.0.0 and file bug reports against it. But before stage3, there
were
less than 50% of the patches were to file a bug report. Another reason
why people don't file a bug report before submitting the patch is
because
they have a patch already to fix the bug they were looking into.
http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches does not ask bugzilla
reference for new features.
But that is because the main use for bugzilla is for users rather than
developers for filing bugs/enhancements. There are a huge amount of
enhancements filed in bugzilla already, almost 500 bugs.
The main reason why I file a bug report is either I don't have time to
look into the problem or I know I am going to take a long time to fix
the bug in the first place.
-- Pinski