From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9656 invoked by alias); 22 May 2013 10:12:15 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 9638 invoked by uid 89); 22 May 2013 10:12:14 -0000 X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-8.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_W,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_WL,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.84/v0.84-167-ge50287c) with ESMTP; Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:13 +0000 Received: from int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.11]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r4MACAQl011928 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 22 May 2013 06:12:10 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx01.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id r4MAC8cH019289; Wed, 22 May 2013 06:12:09 -0400 Message-ID: <519C99F8.1000206@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:12:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130311 Thunderbird/17.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joel Brobecker CC: GDB Patches Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki References: <51965CE3.4020805@redhat.com> <20130520100618.GR4017@adacore.com> <519A3DCC.1020805@redhat.com> <20130521052552.GT4017@adacore.com> <519BB505.60805@redhat.com> <20130522062931.GA4017@adacore.com> In-Reply-To: <20130522062931.GA4017@adacore.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-05/txt/msg00818.txt.bz2 On 05/22/2013 07:29 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote: >> Now we just need to convince others. :-) > > Next thing we know, we will be getting rid of ChangeLog files also :-) > (which I have done for the AdaCore version, btw) That I'm not so sure. I do find them useful for archaeology. My current view mirrors Alexandre's here, so I'll just make his words mine :-) : http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00100.html > >> As someone that has done _lots_ of archaeology on gdb's code, >> including going further back beyond the cvs import, I've often >> had trouble matching ChangeLogs to mailing list discussions, and >> then often will still not find a clear rationale if I actually >> find a match. I can only wish people had been doing it too >> "back then". > > Same on my end - I constantly go back in history, both with the FSF > and AdaCore repositories, and found that they help tremendously. > -- Pedro Alves