Re: gdb/CONTRIBUTE

Victor Kamensky
2014-10-24T17:36:19Z

On 24 October 2014 05:20, Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Victor,
>
> On 10/21/2014 03:44 PM, Victor Kamensky wrote:
>>> >
>>> > We don't include the ChangeLog changes in the patch, because that will
>>> > cause conflicts when applying your patch locally in the review.
>>> > Instead, we include ChangeLog entries in the commit messages, see
>>> > https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist#Properly_formatted_commit_messages
>> Thanks! It is good pointer. I have not seen it before.
>> Maybe gdb/CONTRIBUTE could mention this wiki page.
>
> OOC, how did you find gdb/CONTRIBUTE? Was that through
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/contribute/ or some other means?

Yes, through above link. I got to it from
https://sourceware.org/gdb/
following 'contributing' (3rd) tab on top under title.

Thanks,
Victor

> IMO we should just move/merge the gross of the contents in the
> file to the web/wiki, and either delete the file, or leave just
> the preamble.
>
> If it stays, I think it should link to:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/contribute/
>
> as that's more stable than the wiki, and then that page should
> link to relevant wiki pages.
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>