From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28886 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2010 09:01:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 28485 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2010 09:01:58 -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) (74.125.78.146) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:01:54 +0000 Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 4so4392507eyg.42 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:52 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.23.144 with SMTP id r16mr7787792ebb.41.1262768512443; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:01:52 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20100106083504.GH24777@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> <5e81cb501001052356o1cf32c70wa0916d23928e9708@mail.gmail.com> <20100106080332.GG24777@adacore.com> <5e81cb501001060016o7d59ab43x93c24aaa3f4551a9@mail.gmail.com> <20100106083504.GH24777@adacore.com> Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:01:00 -0000 Message-ID: <5e81cb501001060101rb7375f6l2be2ff71ef645b4e@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: The abbreviation in [] From: Sean Chen To: Joel Brobecker Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/msg00105.txt.bz2 > As I said, this is used by the maintainers, so I don't know if it's > really all that useful to explain in the CONTRIBUTING file... By the > time someone gets promoted to maintainer, they should have picked up > this sort of idiosyncratic usage in our mailing list! Thanks for your explanation. I understand your concern. This is also an intermediate situation between adding it to CONTRIBUTING file or not. :) If add, CONTRIBUTING file will grow. Otherwise, new contributors have to guess it. I think a FAQ thread in the mailing list is also OK. If so, new contributors will search title =93FAQ=94 in the mailing list to get the information. =46rom now on, we can search =93rfa rfc commit patch ob=94 to get the current thread. :) --=20 Best Regards, Sean Chen