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Re: Suggestions for GNATS
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: Suggestions for GNATS
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 23:58:27 +0100 (CET)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Neil Booth wrote:
> I also think we should discourage input of bootstrap bugs; most tend
> to be short-term breakage in the tree that everyone knows about, but
> it's hard to reproduce the submitter's exact conditions later to know
> the report is safe to close. Perhaps we should advise that they not be
> entered unless the inability to bootstrap has lasted for several days,
> or if the submitter believes his target to be not used by the main GCC
> people.
This makes sense to me, yes. Consider any such patch pre-approved.
> Finally, I'm happy to write a one-or-two paragraph "rough guide" to
> explain the differences between the categories and how to tell which
> one to put a report into. I'd say roughly 40% of submitted reports
> are put in the wrong category.
Also here any patch improving the documentation is highly welcome. ;)
Gerald
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