From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5520 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2002 16:08:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5511 invoked from network); 20 Sep 2002 16:08:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.138.202.10) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2002 16:08:17 -0000 Received: from ges.redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D65263CF9; Fri, 20 Sep 2002 12:08:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3D8B47E9.5020100@ges.redhat.com> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 09:08:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020824 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Buettner Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] Character set support References: <1020913003056.ZM15701@localhost.localdomain> <1020920003625.ZM23109@localhost.localdomain> <3D8A75F3.3040704@ges.redhat.com> <1020920071148.ZM24070@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00524.txt.bz2 > On Sep 19, 9:12pm, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >> 2002-09-09 Elena Zannoni >> >> From: Emmanuel Thome' >> * top.c (init_main): Set rl_terminal_name. >> >> to reflect both who committed and who created the change. > > > Yes, I do it that way too from time to time usually for smaller > changes that I might have to adapt somewhat. Jim's work is much more > substantial and only minor changes were required. I felt that Jim's > name should be prominent in the ChangeLog for this change. In the above, Emmanuel's name is very prominant. It was their patch that was committed. The place to give credit for a work is either the top of a new file, and/or in the doco. Suggest updating the (C) entry to include: Contributed by Red Hat, Inc. Written by Jim Blandy. 10 years from now, people won't be looking in the ChangeLog. > If you really need to know who committed a change, the CVS logs and > mailing list traffic are available. Also, I believe there is ample > precedent in other projects (e.g. gcc) for the way I did things. The accepted GDB convention is per the above. It means that the ChangeLog stands on its own and does not depend on access to either the CVS repository or the mailing lists. It leaves no confusion over who committed and who authored the change. >> Did the WCHAR problem get resolved? > > > Yes, in the sense that we're taking Jim's patch as-is and we'll > worry about wchar_t changes at some later date. > > See http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-09/msg00261.html Can you please at least create a bug report ``some later date'' work can be tracked? Andrew