From: Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@arm.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: binutils@sourceware.org, GCC Mailing List <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>,
gdb@sourceware.org, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
Richard Biener <rguenther@suse.de>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
Maxim Kuvyrkov <maxim.kuvyrkov@linaro.org>,
Thiago Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@linaro.org>,
Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
Christophe Lyon <christophe.lyon@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: Patches submission policy change
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 09:17:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cda2caa7-99b8-420e-aca4-e06256b9b637@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240404213501.GL19937@gnu.wildebeest.org>
Hi Mark,
On 4/4/24 23:35, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi Christophe,
>
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 10:22:24AM +0200, Christophe Lyon via Gdb wrote:
>> TL;DR: For the sake of improving precommit CI coverage and simplifying
>> workflows, I’d like to request a patch submission policy change, so
>> that we now include regenerated files. This was discussed during the
>> last GNU toolchain office hours meeting [1] (2024-03-28).
>>
>> Benefits or this change include:
>> - Increased compatibility with precommit CI
>> - No need to manually edit patches before submitting, thus the “git
>> send-email” workflow is simplified
>> - Patch reviewers can be confident that the committed patch will be
>> exactly what they approved
>> - Precommit CI can test exactly what has been submitted
>>
>> Any concerns/objections?
>
> I am all for it. It will make testing patches easier for everyone.
>
> I do think we still need a better way to make sure all generated files
> can be regenerated. If only to check that the files were generated
> correctly with the correct versions. The autoregen buildbots are able
> to catch some, but not all such mistakes.
>
> wrt to the mailinglists maybe getting larger patches, I think most
> will still be under 400K and I wouldn't raise the limit (because most
> such larger emails are really just spam). But we might want to get
> more mailinglist moderators.
>
> gcc-patches, binutils and gdb-patches all have only one moderator
> (Jeff, Ian and Thiago). It would probably be good if there were
> more.
>
> Any volunteers? It shouldn't be more than 1 to 3 emails a week
> (sadly most of them spam).
>
I'm happy to help with moderation of any/all of these 3 lists.
Thanks,
Christophe
> Cheers,
>
> Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-05 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-03 8:22 Christophe Lyon
2024-04-03 8:30 ` Jan Beulich
2024-04-03 13:11 ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-04 8:12 ` Jan Beulich
2024-04-05 7:22 ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-03 8:45 ` Jakub Jelinek
2024-04-03 8:49 ` Jan Beulich
2024-04-03 8:57 ` Richard Biener
2024-04-03 10:21 ` Jan Beulich
2024-04-03 12:58 ` Joel Sherrill
2024-04-03 13:23 ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-08 15:37 ` Richard Earnshaw (lists)
2024-04-03 12:59 ` Jason Merrill
2024-04-03 13:19 ` Christophe Lyon
2024-04-03 9:50 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-03 15:03 ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-04 21:35 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-04 21:51 ` Simon Marchi
2024-04-05 6:44 ` Marc
2024-04-05 7:17 ` Christophe Lyon [this message]
2024-04-06 16:29 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-07 12:32 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-07 14:02 ` Mark Wielaard
2024-04-07 14:20 ` Jonathan Wakely
2024-04-07 22:00 ` Mark Wielaard
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