Fixing Bugs (Was: A Suggestion for Release Testing)

Andrew Pinski pinskia@physics.uc.edu
Tue Jun 14 14:34:00 GMT 2005


On Jun 14, 2005, at 10:14 AM, Scott Robert Ladd wrote:

> Gentoo provides a mentoring system for developers. This is far better
> than GCC's "fix it yourself and send us the code" policy. There is no
> gentle way to become involved in GCC; it's a sink-or-swim, trial by 
> fire
> environment. If I could get a half-dozen quick questions answered, and 
> I
> could submit a couple of patches that are lying about on my hard drive.

We don't do that, we request the source of the failing source and most 
of
the time say how to fix the original code if it was invalid code.

I have not seen one recent bug report from you so I don't understand why
you are complaining!

Thanks,
Andrew P



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