Comments on Patching GCC

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:

 Ben> I'm a bit undecided about what needs to happen next, but I agree
 Ben> that sending mail to gcc-patches is really hit and miss.  A good
 Ben> amount of traffic on gcc-patches consists of "ping?" messages.
 Ben> Patch authors have no idea on the state of their patches, nor do
 Ben> other interested parties.  Maintainers may easily miss patches
 Ben> that are due their attention.

 Ben> I have to wonder if a patch tracking system wouldn't be a better
 Ben> way of handling patches.

Good point, especially for those of us that are maintainers for
components with low rates of traffic.  Trying to find the message that
I actually have to act on in a flood of 300+ gcc messages per day is
very difficult.

     paul