From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Edelsohn To: Bernd Schmidt Cc: Jim Wilson , gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: Loop unroll fixes Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 11:47:00 -0000 Message-id: <200109141847.OAA27242@makai.watson.ibm.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00554.html If the GCC developers with the experience and privileges to review patches don't have enough time to review all of the patches, then we explicitly should tell the GCC developer community that. Implying that GCC development can handle the volume of patches, but letting most patches fall through the cracks helps no one. We need to attract more GCC developers to whom responsibility can be spread, not discourage the very developers who could become those maintainers and reviewers. We also have to accept that fixing the problem will require modifications to GCC development policy in order to balance responsiveness to developers with stability of the compiler. We already have started to address that with the new rules for checking in and reverting patches. David P.S. I am sorry that my original message upset some people, but I think it is good if it can lead to this type of open discussion about the problems in GCC development and how to improve the situation.