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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez
<lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 April 2010 22:28, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> We had a patch tracking system, and it was completely ignored by most
>> maintainers.
>
> But *submitters* did use it until it went down. So it was useful for
> tracking unreviewed patches, not for improving reviewing. Right now, I
> have no way to check what unreviewed patches there may be interesting
> for me apart from searching the gcc-patches mailing list. Even the
> psychological effect of having your patch tracked somewhere instead of
> completely ignored would be effective. Perhaps more importantly, it
> showed which parts of the compiler were more in need of further
> reviewers.
>
> I think it was really bad that we lost the patch tracker.
You can use bugzilla, the patch keyword and the URL field to track patches
for bugs.
Richard.
> Cheers,
>
> Manuel.
>