Re: About RFA for Add scripts to generate ARI web pages to gdb/contrib/ari directory

[Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>]

On Tuesday, August 21 2012, Pierre Muller wrote:

>   In order to avoid further digressions and as the thread is now already
> quite old,
> I was wondering if we should not first discuss of a general scheme
> as to how we should proceed here.

Sorry, I don't remember much of thread right now, but I glanced over the
archives and it seems that things were discussed quite a bit and your
patches were mostly OK.

>   My plan was to:
> 1) create a contrib/ARI subdirectory
> in which I would copy the existing scripts.

src/gdb/contrib/ari, as Doung pointed out.

> 2) Remove useless code in new location and fix 
> biggest errors in existing scripts only, leaving
> other improvements for later (so that they would appear
> in cvs history).

Great.

> 3) Add a minimal number of new scripts to allow easy use 
> from within this new location.

Great.

> One of the issues was about where we should put the corresponding ChangeLog
> entries.

ISTR that the maintainers are not found of creating new ChangeLog files
on every new directory, so you should put the entries in gdb/ChangeLog
as usual, IIUC.

>   I would like to restart the discussion
> from here.

> Pierre Muller
> as potential ARI maintainer...

Is there anything else?  I really don't remember.  If not, I guess you,
as the potential ARI maintainer, can take the next step and commit this
to the tree.  But that's my opinion, of course.

Thanks,

-- 
Sergio