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Re: Patch pinging
On 8 June 2010 07:43, Chiheng Xu <chiheng.xu@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Ben White <ja_walker@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Would a modestly modified copy of Bugzilla be workable for that something?
>> I.E. Patchzilla?
>
> Think about mercurial or git. ?Every one can commit on his/her own
> local repository, and "publish" his/her repository. ?Every one can
> pull other people's changes into his/her own repository, and can
> selectively merge interesting/valuable changes. Every patch have it's
> own branch. So called "approved patches" will be those patches whose
> branches have been merged. Then, you only need to think whether or not
> merge the branches the patches reside.
>
> If you use mercurial or git, every change will not be lost, every one
> can review and selectively merge any branch on his/her convenience.
That would only make matters worse in GCC, because reviewers are not
generally interested on spending time merging anyone's else changes.
What we are discussion here is a way to not lose track of the work of
sporadic contributors so they don't feel ignored by the GCC project.
Cheers,
Manuel.