patch tracking

[Marc Espie]

In article < 200109162145.OAA02357@atrus.synopsys.com > you write:
>There is one particular category of patch that I am especially eager
>to speed up: patches that fix severe breakage (like "won't bootstrap")
>on minority platforms.  If we can't find a way to do that, as time
>goes on gcc will work on fewer and fewer platforms.  We may need to

Putting on my `opressed OpenBSD minority' hat...
I concur. 
I don't count the number of times I had to become completely obnoxious
just to get a nagging minor problem (and often complete with patches)
reviewed and in the mainline/the stable tree.

Many thanks to the very few fellow developers who can find the time to
help me (rth specifically, as he's helped me more often than not)