Re: [patch] gdb/CONTRIBUTE update

Tom Tromey
2013-03-01T16:51:09Z

Jan> That is the whole problem - how to keep the list of pending patches.

Jan> I maintain a list of my own patches I submitted. Another problem is that
Jan> older patches sometimes even reviewed no longer get a response by their
Jan> submitter so there should be also some response timeouts.

I think bugzilla would be better.

* User files patch in bugzilla, makes sure to tag the attachment as a patch
* Reviews can be done in bugzilla (or email? I forget if that is
enabled on sourceware, but if not perhaps we could set it up)
* A reviewer would put the bug into WAITING; we can randomly do queries
for this and close all WAITING bugs older than a year or two
* We could have a job anywhere to query bugzilla and send out weekly
ping reminders

To be clear, I don't object to your CONTRIBUTE change.
I have a suspicion that adding more work for the contributors is going
to mean more patches being dropped (by them), but time will tell.

Tom