Conerned about lack of detail in ChangeLog/commit messges

[Martin v. Loewis]

> I have heard many motivations for the start of the egcs project, but the one
> above is new to me: I was not aware of any legitimate developer or tester
> who had problems getting to GCC development sources at any point.

It's probably hard, and may be pointless, to dig in the specific
history today - however I'd like to offer a single data point. I know
that I, personally, found it very hard to even find out how gcc is
being maintained all those years. I had been looking a number of times
since '95, and really all I could find were bug reporting addresses -
these were also recommended for submitting patches. Of course, it may
be that I was not looking hard enough, but I definitely got the
impression that gcc was being developed behind closed doors.

Regards,
Martin