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Patch pinging
- From: NightStrike <nightstrike at gmail dot com>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 14:09:27 -0400
- Subject: Patch pinging
Recently on #gcc, I have been conversing with several others on the
topic of patches lost in the tides of the gcc-patches mailing list. I
flagged Jeff Downs' recent message as an example of a patch that has
been waiting since November
(http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2010-06/msg00177.html). I then
volunteered to be a patch pinger, to watch the mailing list and ping
patches that don't get responses. I currently do this for Win64 work
anyway, so I already read most of the mailing list as it is.
To do this between Kai and myself for Win64, he posts a commit message
at the end of the thread (Committed rev ###) to signify to me to
delete the thread from my inbox. Every so often, I ask him about any
threads that haven't been addressed. I offered to Ian to do the same
thing for the whole mailing list if we can make it a policy that
people who commit changes do what Kai is doing so that it's clear that
the thread is done with. I don't mind throwing a few pings down, and
I already have the whole ML tagged with a gmail label.