From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29319 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2010 07:56:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 29310 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2010 07:56:28 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (HELO ey-out-1920.google.com) (74.125.78.145) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:56:24 +0000 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so4383461eyg.42 for ; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:56:22 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.25.67 with SMTP id y3mr3125334ebb.44.1262764582042; Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:56:22 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100106065111.GE24777@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> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: <5e81cb501001052356o1cf32c70wa0916d23928e9708@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: The abbreviation in [] From: Sean Chen To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00099.txt.bz2 > Perhaps, if you have some time, you could help us improve the situation? > Some of us have been hacking on GDB for long enough that we don't > realize that these sorts of questions are not obvious, so your > feedback is important. > > I had a look at the GDB website, and the "contribute" page > (http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/contribute/, click on "contributing" > at the top of the main web page) has a short text pointing to > the CONTRIBUTE file. If you are willing to send patches to this file, > I'm sure Eli and/or I are willing to review them (Eli is our documentation > maintainer). I am glad to share my impression. I just have a concern here. Do you think gdb/CONTRIBUTE is too formal to include these abbreviations? If not, I am OK to prepare it and log my impression in the future as well. -- Best Regards, Sean Chen