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Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC)
I don't like self-advertising, but ...
* Steven Bosscher wrote on Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 03:05:45PM CEST:
> Perhaps it is possible to create some kind of check-patch script for
> GCC too, e.g. one that checks the following things at least:
> * ChangeLog presence
> * ChangeLog format and completeness
> * formatting / coding style of the patch itself
>
> We should perhaps make tools available in contrib/ that help people
> set up things properly for patch submission. For example Diego had a
> script that extracts a skeleton ChangeLog from a patch, perhaps it
> should be put in contrib/ and advertised somewhere (e.g. wiki).
FWIW, I wrote vc-chlog a while ago (ships together with vc-dwim[1]) which
IMVHO is fairly accurate at creating stub ChangeLog entries if you have
Exuberant Ctags installed. Without it, updates to the GCC build system
would have been rather painful.
I would add blurb about it in the wiki if that is acceptable.
Cheers,
Ralf
[1] www.gnu.org/software/vc-dwim/