Re: embedded target breakage [Was: Re: Patch commit requirements]

[Toshi Morita <tm2 at best dot com>]

> > Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 21:13:00 +0200
> > From: Toon Moene <toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl>
> 
> > Recently, there have been reports of several (i.e. 5) embedded targets
> > that not even pass a cross-compile bootstrap.  Does that mean that we do
> > not have enough compute cycles to test this every 24 hours (I almost
> > wrote "night" here, but then I realised that what is `night' to me would
> > go by another name at the Left Coast of the Pond).
> 
> More likely it means that there are not enough humans available to
> look at the testresults and work out which patch caused the problem.
> 
> -- 
> - Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>

I beg to differ.

>From my viewpoint, the bottleneck is in the patch review and approval process.
I've sent a patch which fixes the h8300-hms bootstrap problem TWICE to 
gcc-patches, and it was never reviewed or accepted for inclusion.

In addition, there are about six other patches I've posted which fix various
other problems for which I'm waiting for approval before doing any other work.

I would do more work on gcc, but right now it feels like all my patches are
being posted into a huge black hole, so it's pretty discouraging.
I'm sure other people feel the same way, since I see them post messages
entitled "My Unreviewed Patches" enumerating their unreviewed patches.


Toshi