There are pull requests in gcc's mirror repository in github, is this official?

There are pull requests in gcc's mirror repository in github, is this official?

[腾刘]

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Hi, all

I'm new to free software community and I'm bit confused about gcc's mirror
repository in github.

It's mirrored from gnu, but there are still pull requests, some are open,
some are closed. What are these PRs, and can I also contribute to
gcc/libgc++ by opening a PR, other than the way suggested here: Contributing
to GCC - GNU Project <https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html>, since I don't
understand how to send patch by email.

Thanks for answers and instructions in advance.

Re: There are pull requests in gcc's mirror repository in github, is this official?

[Jonathan Wakely]

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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024, 22:59 腾刘, <27rabbitlt@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi, all
>
> I'm new to free software community and I'm bit confused about gcc's mirror
> repository in github.
>
> It's mirrored from gnu, but there are still pull requests, some are open,
> some are closed. What are these PRs, and can I also contribute to
> gcc/libgc++ by opening a PR, other than the way suggested here: Contributing
> to GCC - GNU Project <https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html>, since I don't
> understand how to send patch by email.
>

No. The GitHub repo is an unofficial mirror set up (as far as I can tell)
by GitHub and then completely abandoned by whoever owns it. It syncs
automatically with the official repo but nobody looks at the pull requests
there. The closed pull requests were closed by the submitters without being
merged. Most of them are completely broken nonsense anyway.

There's nothing very complicated about sending patches by email. You send
an email with a patch attached.