Re: Stepping up as maintainer for ia64

[Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de>]

On 09.03.24 03:18, Peter Bergner via Gcc wrote:
> On 3/8/24 5:28 PM, Jonathan Wakely wrote:
>> On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 at 22:35, Frank Scheiner via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08.03.24 23:00, Peter Bergner wrote:
>>>> On 3/8/24 7:16 AM, Richard Biener via Gcc wrote:
>>>>> I CCed Jeff who is on the commitee to forward the maintainer proposal
>>>>> though I guess this will not go forward as a first step.  Instead
>>>>> you are probably expected to show activity on the port, for example
>>>>> post the patch series to make ia64 use LRA, get write access to the
>>>>> git repository and then be promoted maintainer.
>>>>
>>>> One other method for showing activity is posting regular testsuite
>>>> results on the gcc-testresults mailing list to show the community
>>>> the port is "working".
>>>
>>> I don't want to spam this or the other list each and every week, but I
>>
>> Sending test results to the gcc-testresults list is **not** spamming,
>> that's what the list is for!
>
> 100% agree!  If you look at what we (IBM) post, we roughly post somewhere
> around 7 testsuite results per day due to runs on different hardware,
> endianness and OS (Linux versus AIX).  So spam ...err... post away!
>
>
>
>> If you're testing uncommon targets (e.g. ia64-linux) then sending test
>> results to the list is essential so we know the target builds, because
>> nobody else is testing it.
>
> Again, 100% agree!

Ok, ok, I'll do. :-)

Cheers,
Frank