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Re: increasing the number of GCC reviewers
On Tue, 2009-06-09 at 21:13 +0200, Basile STARYNKEVITCH wrote:
> This is precisely my point. It should be perfectly acceptable that some
> people be authorized to approve some few patches without understanding
> the whole of GCC, and even without knowing all of it.
I sympathise with this point of view, Basile. Over the time I have
worked on GCC, there has been a lot of modularity improvements and
improving the robustness of interfaces throughout the compiler. If this
continues, it should be possible to understand changes in more
isolation. While there will always be consequences that need to be
understood, but that should not apply to every change.
Ben