From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4860 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2010 05:00:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 4851 invoked by uid 22791); 5 Jan 2010 05:00:26 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:19 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D11BC2BAB85; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:00:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id PBgX1pR4wEr4; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:00:17 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B3602BAB74; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 00:00:17 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 846C9F5936; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:00:07 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Sean Chen Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: The abbreviation in [] Message-ID: <20100105050007.GB24777@adacore.com> References: <5e81cb501001041706k2b430414jaa182127dd70f9a@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5e81cb501001041706k2b430414jaa182127dd70f9a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00072.txt.bz2 > 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