Comments on Patching GCC

[Brad Roberts]

On 23 Sep 2004, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> Date: 23 Sep 2004 20:34:26 -0400
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>
> To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Comments on Patching GCC
>
> Ben Elliston <bje@au.ibm.com> writes:
>
> > I have to wonder if a patch tracking system wouldn't be a better way
> > of handling patches.
>
> I think a patch tracking system would be quite useful for gcc.  It
> would of course need some manual guidance.
>
> An interim approach would be a to have a few "patch shepherds" who
> would manage the patch queue, direct the attention of appropriate
> maintainers to new patches, and ping about patches which were being
> ignored.  I think the project has done surprisingly well with the
> volunteer bugmasters.  Would it be possible to have volunteer
> patchmasters as well?
>
> Ian

Bugzilla itself has a fairly nice attachment mechanism which has a lot of
special handling for patchs, review requests, etc.  Given that gcc
developers already use bugzilla, why not use more of it's features?  The
mozilla development community uses it for every change going into all of
the various apps they produce.

Later,
Brad