From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5349 invoked by alias); 24 Apr 2010 20:37:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 5203 invoked by uid 22791); 24 Apr 2010 20:37:44 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SARE_MSGID_LONG45 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-gx0-f216.google.com (HELO mail-gx0-f216.google.com) (209.85.217.216) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:37:38 +0000 Received: by gxk8 with SMTP id 8so3240942gxk.9 for ; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.150.193.6 with SMTP id q6mr1923488ybf.83.1272141456842; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.146.3 with HTTP; Sat, 24 Apr 2010 13:37:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4BD34B22.3010502@oarcorp.com> Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC) From: Richard Guenther To: Steven Bosscher Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez=2DIb=E1=F1ez?= , Joel Sherrill , Thomas Neumann , "gcc@gcc.gnu.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org X-SW-Source: 2010-04/txt/msg00676.txt.bz2 On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Steven Bosscher w= rote: > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 10:23 PM, Manuel L=F3pez-Ib=E1=F1ez > wrote: >> On 24 April 2010 21:48, Joel Sherrill wrote: >>> >>> There is definitely a workflow problem though. =A0I have >>> had patches I submitted through Bugzilla which didn't >>> get reviewed until I was asked to submit them to >>> gcc-patches. =A0And vice-versa. =A0A triage team and >>> tracking system might have prevented this. >> >> A patch tracking system would already be an improvement and it would >> be fantastic if someone contributed such thing. > > We had a patch tracking system, and it was completely ignored by most > maintainers. Indeed - we do not need another piece of infrastructure. Note that good patch review takes a lot of time and we (unfortunately again) do not have many active patch reviewers. So it happens that patches from people with excellent track history get approved quickly but others are just left behind. Pinging the patches does usually help here, as well as working with maintainers during the patch creation so that the final review is easy. Richard. > Ciao! > Steven >