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Re: A new parallel buld patch
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: A new parallel buld patch
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2000 12:45:06 -0600
- cc: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>, David Edelsohn <dje at watson dot ibm dot com>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <orln17pwgr.fsf@saci.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>you write:
> It often occurs that someone reads e-mail and replies before reading
> the rest of the thread, sounding totally out of context by the time
> the reply shows up at everybody else's mailboxes. I'm sure this is
> what happened this time.
With my email load and daily schedule, this is pretty normal.
> You don't have to. You just have to deal with the team of GCC
> maintainers, posting patches with ChangeLog entries and textual
> explanations of the problems they're supposed to fix. Jeff is not the
> only one who can approve or disapprove patches. GCC is not maintained
> by a single person.
Precisely. This is critical for everyone to remember. When we revamped
the project's structure nearly 3 years ago, one of the key goals was to remove
the single point of failure or single choke point for patches.
This is especially important to remember as I continue to scale back the
amount of work I do on GCC.
jeff