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Re: Maintainers list
- To: "Martin v. Loewis" <martin at loewis dot home dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>
- Subject: Re: Maintainers list
- From: Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 11:05:30 +0200
- cc: dj at delorie dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
May be the idea is totally silly, but...
Why not having a CVS patch directory in which all pending patches not
yet reviewed would be stored with some explicit name conventions...
The main advantages are:
- that not everyone will need to sort out patches
incoming on the patch mailing-list and track the multiple
versions of a given patch when testing or reviewing.
- A standard repository structure will help applying and
testing patches.
- Relaxed rules could be adopted for write access to this
directory (or CVS repo). By this I do not mean that everyone
would be allowed to add patches but an augmented list of
people (people that without being maintainers are
knowledgeable enough to classify the patch, judge about its
importance,...). Ideally, once a patch goes in the submitter
should be allowed to replace it by new versions but I do
not know how this could be done.
- A systematic way to store and retrieve the patch that have
been applied.
Drawbacks:
- cvs might not be the best tool to deal with the properties
of such a directory (typically files do not have a huge
lifetime and many modifications).
- This might reduce the testing of stock gcc if people are
starting testing (and keeping installed) patches before
they have been reviewed by someone knowledgeable.
- needs people to organize the directory. The feasibility of
feeding the directory from the patch mailing list (in some
not yet sorted category) is not so clear (unless very strict
rules for patch submission are applied). This would be nice
to avoid having patches falling through the cracks...
Maybe some good submission scripts may help ?
- Certainly many others since no one has proposed this yet...
Theo.
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