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Re: Patch reviewal
- To: Denis Perchine <dyp at perchine dot com>
- Subject: Re: Patch reviewal
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 14:04:27 +0200 (MET DST)
- cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Denis Perchine wrote:
>> Patches should never remain unreviewed for that long a period.
> I completely agree with you. Actually it just shows the organization
> of the project itself. I came here from KDE team and after their very
> well organized structure it is quite hard to accept this...
Do you have any suggestions that we could implement?
>> Perhaps we need additional maintainers to take care of "non-sexy" stuff?
> Sounds reasonable. Problem is who will do this? People are working for
> fun here.
I'm sure we can easily find additional system-specific port maintainers.
For example, I feel that this makes sense for the BSDs, which are the only
"free" systems apart from GNU/Linux, yet even SunOS 4.x usually seem to be
reviewed much faster.
Gerald
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