Comments on Patching GCC

[Devang Patel]

On Sep 24, 2004, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Pinski wrote:

>
> On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Devang Patel wrote:
>> I am not sure this is true in reality. Look at the last 100 patches 
>> posted on gcc-patch. How many of them has bugzilla reference ?
>
> Actually at this point, more than 50% of them do because users are 
> starting
> to use 4.0.0 and file bug reports against it.  But before stage3, 
> there were
> less than 50% of the patches were to file a bug report.

Which means, it is OK to post patches without bugzilla reference.

> Another reason
> why people don't file a bug report before submitting the patch is 
> because
> they have a patch already to fix the bug they were looking into.

same here.

>
>> http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches does not ask bugzilla 
>> reference for new features.
>
> But that is because the main use for bugzilla is for users rather than
> developers for filing bugs/enhancements.

And this says that following is not 100% true! :-)

" Yes Bugzilla is used to keep track of feature development and other
enhancements like optimization passes "

Caroline raised good question as part of this discussion and it is 
still unanswered.

-
Devang

[Note: I am not arguing whether each patch should include bugzilla 
reference or not.]