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[www-patch] bugs/management.html: document new keyword "meta-bug"
- From: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
- To: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 01:42:21 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: [www-patch] bugs/management.html: document new keyword "meta-bug"
- Reply-to: Volker Reichelt <reichelt at igpm dot rwth-aachen dot de>
The following patch adds a paragraph for the new keyword "meta-bug" to
the "Procedures and Policies" section of bugs/management.html.
Validated as XHTML 1.0.
Ok to commit?
Regards,
Volker
Index: management.html
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RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/bugs/management.html,v
retrieving revision 1.18
diff -u -p -r1.18 management.html
--- management.html 5 Oct 2003 12:54:35 -0000 1.18
+++ management.html 13 Oct 2003 23:37:53 -0000
@@ -207,6 +207,14 @@ severity "<strong>critical</strong>" to
be downgraded later if a defect is not important enough to justify
"critical" severity.</p>
+<p><strong>Meta-bugs (reports with the keyword "meta-bug")</strong> are
+used to group PR's that have a common denominator. Meta-bugs do not have
+own testcases, but provide links to regular PR's via Bugzilla's "depends
+on/blocks" mechanism instead (a link to a regular PR is added via
+"depends on <em>PR-number</em>" on the Bugzilla page of the meta-bug).
+Information concerning the majority of bugs that a meta-bug depends on
+should be added to the meta-bug instead of each single PR.</p>
+
<p><strong>Bugs with keyword "ice-on-invalid-code"</strong>, where GCC
emits a sensible error message before issuing an ICE (the ICE will be
replaced by the message "confused by earlier errors, bailing out" in
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