On Thu, Jan 19, 2023, 13:33 Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 19 January 2023 13:52:55 CET, NightStrike via Fortran <
> fortran@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >You can, and people naturally do this, and I think it's great, but
> >there's usually a response from someone saying "post that to the
> >mailing list instead".
>
> The mailing list has a 20-30 year history with reasoning about what
> currently is in the tree. I do think it is valuable to reason about patches
> publically for others to see. And I'm aware that this might not be regarded
> fancy nowadays by everyone.
>
> But that does not mean that using other means to collaborate should not be
> used by some. Be it comp.lang.fortran, a webchat.oftc, or other means,
> that's all fine of course.
>
> patches currently are handled differently, but I don't think that is a
> problem isn't it.
> Just post final patches to the list as long as that is regarded the way to
> do final review and document approval.
>
> cheers,
>

The problem is that patch tracking is unsustainable. You could go the other
way and have a patch tracker automatically echo messages to the mailing
list.

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