From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4308 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2001 07:39:44 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 4270 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 07:39:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.cygnus.com) (24.114.42.213) by hostedprojects.ges.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 07:39:38 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.cygnus.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D185E3DC1 for ; Tue, 27 Nov 2001 02:39:32 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C034334.8030403@cygnus.com> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:37:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20011020 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [maint] [patch] clarify ``obvious fix'' a little Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------040300090807080308090405" X-SW-Source: 2001-11/txt/msg00273.txt.bz2 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------040300090807080308090405 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-length: 205 Hello, Eli pointed out that part of the obvious fix rule was somewhat confusing and suggested the the following. I'm going to er, check it in as obvious (in a few days if no one complains :-). Andrew --------------040300090807080308090405 Content-Type: text/plain; name="diffs" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="diffs" Content-length: 1375 2001-11-27 Andrew Cagney * MAINTAINERS: Clarify obvious fix a little (suggesed by Eli Zaretskii). Index: MAINTAINERS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/MAINTAINERS,v retrieving revision 1.123 diff -p -r1.123 MAINTAINERS *** MAINTAINERS 2001/11/16 18:29:27 1.123 --- MAINTAINERS 2001/11/27 07:34:13 *************** All maintainers listed in this file are *** 33,44 **** fixes. An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will ! disagree with the change. Something like bypassing an interface will ! result in instantaneous and loud complaints. A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and needs to be posted first. :-) Target/Architecture: --- 33,47 ---- fixes. An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will ! disagree with the change. A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and needs to be posted first. :-) + + Something like changing or bypassing an interface is _not_ an obvious + fix, since such a change without discussion will result in + instantaneous and loud complaints. Target/Architecture: --------------040300090807080308090405-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Cagney To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: [maint] [patch] clarify ``obvious fix'' a little Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:39:00 -0000 Message-ID: <3C034334.8030403@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00488.html Message-ID: <20011126233900.7EmBSNEINkrXpS0-8V5sDasPy4j5Je-NWupVD2yveus@z> Hello, Eli pointed out that part of the obvious fix rule was somewhat confusing and suggested the the following. I'm going to er, check it in as obvious (in a few days if no one complains :-). Andrew >From eliz@is.elta.co.il Mon Nov 26 23:40:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Cagney Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: 5.1 -> 5.1.0_0000-00-00-cvs Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:40:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3C033756.8050605@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-11/msg00489.html Content-length: 192 On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Andrew Cagney wrote: > I've bumped the 5.1 branch version.in again. This will (hopefully) kick > start the branches snapshot process. Are we going to release v5.1.1?