From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Sean Chen <sean.chen1234@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: The abbreviation in []
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100105050007.GB24777@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5e81cb501001041706k2b430414jaa182127dd70f9a@mail.gmail.com>
> I don't know some abbreviations in the title, like [RFA] (Request for
> Approval?), [RFC[ (Request for Comment?), [OB] (Obvious?), etc. Is
> there a list about these abbreviations? Thanks in advance.
I don't know of any such list, but you got the above right :).
Other abbreviations used are "PATCH" or "commit" to mean that
someone just applied a patch - in other word, they are not requesting
approval, just keeping everyone informed that a patch was just applied
and why. In the past, some of the maintainers have found that PATCH
is ambiguous, and occasional contributors confused it with RFA, and
thus suggested "commit" instead. Tom Tromey also started using "FYI"
as a tag for patch-just-committed.
All in all, it's nothing really critical. It does not matter if
you deviate a bit from the convention ;-)
--
Joel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-05 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-05 1:06 Sean Chen
2010-01-05 5:00 ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2010-01-05 15:46 ` Sean Chen
2010-01-05 17:42 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-06 6:33 ` Sean Chen
2010-01-06 6:51 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-06 7:56 ` Sean Chen
2010-01-06 8:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-06 8:16 ` Sean Chen
2010-01-06 8:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2010-01-06 9:01 ` Sean Chen
2010-01-06 9:26 ` Hui Zhu
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