From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Joseph S. Myers" To: Daniel Berlin Cc: Subject: Re: Loop unroll fixes Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 12:15:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <87elp9j2rg.fsf@cgsoftware.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00556.html On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote: > Your job, as a maintainer, is to review patches. As a maintainer, this is not the case; every patch can be reviewed by at least the twelve people with global write privileges and there is no particular requirement on any one person to review a particular patch. As a developer (of patches touching other areas of the compiler), we need a patch tracking system to avoid patches getting lost. As both, even trivial patches can fail to attract the necessary attention, especially if they do need a global write maintainer or multiple maintainers to look at them. E.g., (a simple patch to help i18n) still awaits review of the one-line patch to exgettext (the C front end part is OK). A lot of patches are, like this, largely within one maintainer's competence but for trivial reasons involve changes elsewhere requiring review from someone else as well. -- Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk