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Re: patch tracking
- To: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Subject: Re: patch tracking
- From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer at dbai dot tuwien dot ac dot at>
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 23:21:20 +0200 (CEST)
- cc: <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
> First, we want to decrease the number of patches that the overworked
> experts must handle, by having a pre-screening process.
Also, we should abondon the "Bootstrap running, okay if it passes? --
Please forget the previous patch, here is a new one!" scenario we have
been seeing increasingly often.
> I realize that GNATS is not ideal for patch-tracking, but it's already
> in place.
Some projects like FreeBSD are using GNATS for tracking patches; it's
not perfect, but it works relatively well AFAIK.
Gerald
(In the past I twice suggested to use GNATS to avoid patches falling
through the cracks, but in both cases there wasn't a single reply. OTOH,
my proposal was by far less elaborate than the current one. ;) )