From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14024 invoked by alias); 6 Jan 2010 09:26:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 14009 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jan 2010 09:26:55 -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 mail-pw0-f49.google.com (HELO mail-pw0-f49.google.com) (209.85.160.49) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:26:51 +0000 Received: by pwj12 with SMTP id 12so12641947pwj.8 for ; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:26:50 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.152.40 with SMTP id z40mr7708194wfd.334.1262770010285; Wed, 06 Jan 2010 01:26:50 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <5e81cb501001060101rb7375f6l2be2ff71ef645b4e@mail.gmail.com> References: <5e81cb501001041706k2b430414jaa182127dd70f9a@mail.gmail.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> <5e81cb501001060101rb7375f6l2be2ff71ef645b4e@mail.gmail.com> From: Hui Zhu Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: The abbreviation in [] To: Sean Chen Cc: Joel Brobecker , 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/msg00106.txt.bz2 I think maybe you can add a contributors FAQ to WIKI. Thanks, Hui On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 17:01, Sean Chen wrote: >> 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. > > From now on, we can search =93rfa rfc commit patch ob=94 to get the > current thread. :) > > -- > Best Regards, > Sean Chen >