On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Richard Biener wrote:
Why remove ChangeLog files, web pages and comments?
I was going to complain about web pages being removed. :-)
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Diego Novillo wrote:
-<p>Fixes for obvious typos in ChangeLog files, docs, web pages, comments
-and similar stuff. Just check in the fix and copy it to
-<code>gcc-patches</code>. We don't want to get overly anal-retentive
-about checkin policies.</p>
+<p>Obvious fixes can be committed without prior approval. Just check
+in the fix and copy it to <code>gcc-patches</code>. A good test to
+determine whether a fix is obvious: <q>will the person who objects to
+my work the most be able to find a fault with my fix?</q> If the fix
+is later found to be faulty, it can always be rolled back. We don't
+want to get overly restrictive about checkin policies.</p>
I am in favor of this change.
To some extent, this is more a clarification of what I have seen as
our current policy than a change in policy, though to a laywer-minded
person it surely looks like the latter. Not sure what kind of approval
this needs? Mind it has.