Re: The abbreviation in []

Joel Brobecker
2010-01-06T08:35:21Z

> Just now, I noticed another style like [RFA/commit] (written by you).
> What does it mean?
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-12/msg00459.html

This is used often by the maintainers when they are about to commit
a patch, but would appreciate some feedback on it. We use this protocol
as an intermediate approach between the situation where we are checking in
a patch because we're sufficient confident about the patch, and the
situation where we're asking for approval because we're touching an area
that we don't know enough to commit without review.

It can be a useful approach because we know that a lot of patches are
hard to review for most maintainers, so feedback cannot always be
obtained. So we leave the patch out for a while, hoping for comment,
eventually committing it even if the email generated no comment.

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!

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Joel