Questions on Bug Reporting

[Joe Buck]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 06:29:39AM +0200, Giovanni Bajo wrote:
> Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
> 
> > 1) If I find a bug, and figure out how to fix it right away, is it
> > better to file a bug report in Bugzilla, or just post the patch to
> > gcc-patches without opening a PR?
> 
> You can post directly a patch. Opening a PR is just a way to help you, to avoid
> not losing track of it, etc. For instance, it might happen that the patch is
> rejected and you do not want to rework it immediatly.

However, the people who approve patches might be more likely to give
priority to your patch if there is a good PR that makes clear that
there is a serious bug that you are fixing.