contributors HOWTO?

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:

> But i find a dificult task to understand the complex
> branches/snapshots/tests/etc system. There are a Contributing HOWTO
> that introduces the gcc development model to newbies? If not, i
> think would be good to have such a guide, so people as me can start
> contributing to the gcc development.

<http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html> is the available documentation (along
with the GNU Coding Standards and the GCC coding conventions, linked to
from there).  It says that patches should be against the CVS mainline.  
As long as you're just fixing bugs, there's no need to care about the
other branches or development stages, as the person installing a patch can 
work out whether it should go on a release branch and the other branches 
are only relevant for more advanced development.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk