Reporting bugs: there is nothing to gain in frustrating reporters

Scott Robert Ladd scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com
Thu Jun 16 14:40:00 GMT 2005


Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Scott Robert Ladd <scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com> writes:
> 
> | 2) A mentoring system could help bring along new GCC developers. I'm not
> | talking about hand-holding, I'm suggesting that having some place for
> | people to ask a few questions, one on one, to get over certain
> | conceptual humps.
> 
> Such a place does exist, as mentioned in several messages.

The IRC channel? No one stated that it was for "newbie" questions. Given
that it wasn't very well documented on the web site, it appeared to be a
private channel for existing GCC developers.

..Scott



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