From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2956 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2010 08:35:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 2947 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2010 08:35:21 -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; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:18 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9983B2BAB9F; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 03:35:16 -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 1eQScDNHbRQG; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 03:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016EF2BAAE0; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 03:35:16 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 874CCF5936; Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:35:04 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:35:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Sean Chen Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: The abbreviation in [] Message-ID: <20100106083504.GH24777@adacore.com> References: <5e81cb501001041706k2b430414jaa182127dd70f9a@mail.gmail.com> <20100105050007.GB24777@adacore.com> <5e81cb501001050746j71724945g87cda1acc6cde350@mail.gmail.com> <20100105174208.GC24777@adacore.com> <5e81cb501001052233t5a7ce6a4hbbfe4637bd4e2494@mail.gmail.com> <20100106065111.GE24777@adacore.com> <5e81cb501001052356o1cf32c70wa0916d23928e9708@mail.gmail.com> <20100106080332.GG24777@adacore.com> <5e81cb501001060016o7d59ab43x93c24aaa3f4551a9@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5e81cb501001060016o7d59ab43x93c24aaa3f4551a9@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/msg00104.txt.bz2 > Just now, I noticed another style like [RFA/commit] (written by you). > What does it mean? > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-12/msg00459.html This is used often by the maintainers when they are about to commit a patch, but would appreciate some feedback on it. We use this protocol as an intermediate approach between the situation where we are checking in a patch because we're sufficient confident about the patch, and the situation where we're asking for approval because we're touching an area that we don't know enough to commit without review. It can be a useful approach because we know that a lot of patches are hard to review for most maintainers, so feedback cannot always be obtained. So we leave the patch out for a while, hoping for comment, eventually committing it even if the email generated no comment. As I said, this is used by the maintainers, so I don't know if it's really all that useful to explain in the CONTRIBUTING file... By the time someone gets promoted to maintainer, they should have picked up this sort of idiosyncratic usage in our mailing list! -- Joel