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Re: Creating gcc-newbies mailing list
On 27/07/07, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <rask@sygehus.dk> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:26:22AM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote:
> > Just an example. There are people that post patches in bugzilla and
> > they seem interested in getting them integrated but normally they
> > break coding style or don't have changelog or didn't even run the
> > testsuite. Of course, the easiest answer is to point to the "how to
> > contribute" webpage. I have done it too. But I must admit that it is a
> > poor answer. When I started, I couldn't bring myself to read all that
> > was required to post a proper patch.
>
> I could. Easily. But I also knew that I was going to submit more than
> just one or two patches. Maybe we can figure out a simpler procedure for
> those who will likely submit just one or two patches, where someone
> volunteers to fix the formatting, write the ChangeLog entry, do the testing
> and anything else that needs to be done for the patch to go in.
Really? You read everything that is linked from
http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html ? (and that doesn't explain for
example how to create testcases). Anyway, I never said that nobody
will be able to learn to program by reading the ISO C standard. I am
sure there are people like that out there. They are not the majority,
though.
About your idea, I will rather prefer to be taught how to do it and
for people to have patience when I make a mistake (but point it out
nonetheless so I can correct it). But, yes, perhaps people that are
going to submit one or two patches cannot be bothered. Can't speak
about that, it is not my case.
Cheers,
Manuel.