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Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
- From: Steven Bosscher <stevenb at suse dot de>
- To: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Cc: Scott Robert Ladd <scott dot ladd at coyotegulch dot com>, Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions dot net>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Giovanni Bajo <rasky at develer dot com>, Roberto Bagnara <bagnara at cs dot unipr dot it>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 16:44:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters
- References: <42B03D35.5020907@cs.unipr.it> <m3oea6wf23.fsf@uniton.integrable-solutions.net> <42B18F17.7030407@coyotegulch.com>
On Thursday 16 June 2005 16:39, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:
> Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> > Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> writes:
> > | 2) A mentoring system could help bring along new GCC developers. I'm
> > | not talking about hand-holding, I'm suggesting that having some place
> > | for people to ask a few questions, one on one, to get over certain
> > | conceptual humps.
> >
> > Such a place does exist, as mentioned in several messages.
>
> The IRC channel? No one stated that it was for "newbie" questions. Given
> that it wasn't very well documented on the web site, it appeared to be a
> private channel for existing GCC developers.
Newbie GCC developers are also existing GCC developers.
Gr.
Steven