From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30830 invoked by alias); 23 Apr 2010 19:40:00 -0000 Received: (qmail 30822 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Apr 2010 19:40:00 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,SARE_MSGID_LONG45,T_FRT_PROFILE2 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-ww0-f47.google.com (HELO mail-ww0-f47.google.com) (74.125.82.47) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:39:55 +0000 Received: by wwb18 with SMTP id 18so6234563wwb.20 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:39:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.163.200 with SMTP id a50mr704937wel.158.1272051593162; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:39:53 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.73.9 with HTTP; Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:39:33 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Manuel_L=F3pez=2DIb=E1=F1ez?= Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 19:45:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Why not contribute? (to GCC) To: =?UTF-8?B?0JTQvNC40YLRgNC40Lkg0JTRjNGP0YfQtdC90LrQvg==?= Cc: gcc Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg00576.txt.bz2 On 23 April 2010 21:24, =D0=94=D0=BC=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=80=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=94= =D1=8C=D1=8F=D1=87=D0=B5=D0=BD=D0=BA=D0=BE wrote: > I have no hardware to test patches, small free time to work and my > english is bad. I always test patches in the CompileFarm.http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/CompileFarm In fact, I only do development in the CompileFarm. I have a not very powerful laptop that is already overworked. I only use linux x86 machines but they have plenty of esoteric hardware and setups for testers. I don't have a good answer to the lack of time. I also have very little free time and the most interesting work is time-consuming. However, just checking whether an unconfirmed PR is still valid takes 5 minutes. When you get proficient writing patches, the most consuming task of fixing a bug may be writing the Changelog. (ok ok, for some very very simple bugs, but they exist!). If you read up to here your English is good enough. We do not need Shakespeare writing code. We need good programmers. Good patches talk by themselves. > But sometimes i submit bug reports :) Good! Thanks! Maybe the next step could be checking whether bug reports are valid or not. ;-) Manuel.