Patch held up in gcc-patches due to size

[Jonathan Wakely]

On Mon, 3 Feb 2025 at 11:06, Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Am 03.02.25 um 11:02 schrieb Mark Wielaard:
> > The problem is, as always spam... Do you find the current limit (400K)
> > restricts you often from fast posting to the gcc-patches list?
>
> It happens every now and then, when the patches (as this one) are really
> big.
>
> >> (Does anybody actually look at the messages, as promised in the e-mail?=
> > I think it is done multiple times each day. The current moderators are
> > Jeff and Marc, with help from the Sourceware volunteers monitoring
> > postmaster. I know some of these people, including Marc and myself
> > were at Fosdem this weekend. How long did you have to wait for your
> > message to get to the list?
>
> Fortran patches are somewhat special because they are reviewed on the
> fortran@gcc.gnu.org mailing list.  Putting gcc-patches on there
> as well is done to give people who are not subscribed to the fortran
> list a chance to look at them, as well.
>
> I do not subscribe to gcc-patches, and I strongly suspect that most
> Fortran maintainers do not either.
>
> The message in question made it through to fortran@, and I never
> had problems there.  Maybe it would be possible to let them
> through automatically to gcc-patches if they are accepted to fortran?


That just means any spam sent to both lists would automatically get
through. That doesn't seem useful.