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Re: Patch pinging
On 8 June 2010 11:17, Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopezibanez@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 June 2010 10:43, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
>> On 06/08/2010 06:42 AM, Basile Starynkevitch wrote:
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 15:05 -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>> So perhaps the thing to do is somehow separate patches from regular
>>>> contributors and irregular contributors. ?A relatively easy way to do
>>>> this would be for a regular contributor to include a keyword in their
>>>> message to gcc-patches to mark the thread as not needing 3rd party
>>>> tracking/pings.
>>>
>>> It seems that perhaps you are suggesting a status in between reviewers&
>>> W.A.A. contributors.
>>
>> I don't understand. ?WAA rights definitely allow you to shepherd and commit
>> patches from people without svn access, even for patches you can't approve.
>
> And basile (and other WAA contributors), this would a nice
> contribution. Asking people that do not appear to have access to svn
> whether you want to commit their patches for them. And keeping them in
It should say: "whether they want you to commit their patches for them."
Cheers,
Manuel.