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Re: Mainline in regression-fix mode after Thanksgiving
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 06:15:59PM +0100, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Janis Johnson <janis187@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I'm set up to do regression hunts on a powerpc64-linux-gnu system and
> > can keep it busy. For regressions that can be tested with only cc1 or
> > cc1plus a regression hunt can build and test cross compilers so it
> > doesn't matter what the build/host system is.
>
> Great!
>
> > If there are regressions you'd like me to track down, assign the PRs to
> > me temporarily and then I can assign them to the person who introduced
> > or exposed the bug, or to someone else who can then decide what do with
> > it next.
>
> As I said in another mail in this thread, we do not have a policy so that we
> can automatically assign regressions to the author of the patch which
> caused/exposed them. (Re)Assigning a bug without permission is considered
> unpolite by some people.
Generally I've just added the person to the cc: list, which would be fine
as long as I can also change a PR back to unassigned. The assignment
would just be to show that I'm looking at it, althought that could just
as well be done with a comment in the PR. Whatever.
Janis