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Re: Getting the ARC port reviewed and accepted
- From: David Edelsohn <dje dot gcc at gmail dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Joern Rennecke <joern dot rennecke at embecosm dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, jeremy dot bennett at embecosm dot com, David Edelsohn <edelsohn at gnu dot org>, GCC Development <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2013 08:46:07 -0400
- Subject: Re: Getting the ARC port reviewed and accepted
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On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 12:47 AM, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> It is unfortunate that global reviewers are so busy that they cannot
>> review the few, infrequent new port submissions. But I find it very
>> distasteful for someone to hyperventilate because other, busy people
>> don't do something that appears obvious.
>
> I'm sure you do, but I find it far more distasteful to have a willing
> volunteer blocked for so long under such circumstances. This is not
> the way that we should be doing things.
Productive, helpful suggestions on how to improve the situation are welcome.
One issue is encouraging more recent but experienced GCC developers to
become maintainers.
Thanks, David