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From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
To: Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com>
Cc: <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: patch tracking
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0109142313060.55386-100000@deneb.dbai.tuwien.ac.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200109141902.MAA15299@atrus.synopsys.com>

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Joe Buck wrote:
> First, we want to decrease the number of patches that the overworked
> experts must handle, by having a pre-screening process.

Also, we should abondon the "Bootstrap running, okay if it passes? --
Please forget the previous patch, here is a new one!" scenario we have
been seeing increasingly often.

> I realize that GNATS is not ideal for patch-tracking, but it's already
> in place.

Some projects like FreeBSD are using GNATS for tracking patches; it's
not perfect, but it works relatively well AFAIK.

Gerald

(In the past I twice suggested to use GNATS to avoid patches falling
through the cracks, but in both cases there wasn't a single reply. OTOH,
my proposal was by far less elaborate than the current one. ;) )

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-09-14 14:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-09-14 12:02 Joe Buck
2001-09-14 12:21 ` Diego Novillo
2001-09-14 12:24 ` egcs
2001-09-14 12:28 ` Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-14 12:35   ` Phil Edwards
2001-09-14 14:03 ` Zack Weinberg
2001-09-14 14:16   ` Phil Edwards
2001-09-14 14:51     ` Joe Buck
2001-09-14 15:53     ` Zack Weinberg
2001-09-14 14:53   ` Joe Buck
2001-09-14 15:48     ` Zack Weinberg
2001-09-14 14:24 ` Gerald Pfeifer [this message]
2001-09-15  3:07 ` Bernd Schmidt
2001-09-16 14:46   ` Joe Buck
2001-09-18 16:18     ` Marc Espie
2001-09-18  9:49 dewar

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