Re: The abbreviation in []

Joel Brobecker
2010-01-05T05:00:28Z

> I don't know some abbreviations in the title, like [RFA] (Request for
> Approval?), [RFC[ (Request for Comment?), [OB] (Obvious?), etc. Is
> there a list about these abbreviations? Thanks in advance.

I don't know of any such list, but you got the above right :).

Other abbreviations used are "PATCH" or "commit" to mean that
someone just applied a patch - in other word, they are not requesting
approval, just keeping everyone informed that a patch was just applied
and why. In the past, some of the maintainers have found that PATCH
is ambiguous, and occasional contributors confused it with RFA, and
thus suggested "commit" instead. Tom Tromey also started using "FYI"
as a tag for patch-just-committed.

All in all, it's nothing really critical. It does not matter if
you deviate a bit from the convention ;-)

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Joel