From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8705 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2004 23:57:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8698 invoked from network); 4 Jun 2004 23:57:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cgf.cx) (66.30.22.40) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 4 Jun 2004 23:57:38 -0000 Received: by cgf.cx (Postfix, from userid 201) id 6569D40027F; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 19:57:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 23:57:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] [maint] Michael Chastain for testsuite Message-ID: <20040604235736.GA3283@coe.casa.cgf.cx> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20040604233726.4FA074B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040604233726.4FA074B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-06/txt/msg00031.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jun 04, 2004 at 07:37:26PM -0400, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: >Chris Faylor writes: >cgf> If we have someone as a maintainer then it seems like their area of >cgf> maintainership should reflect their vision, i.e. you can't just give >cgf> carte blanche to a group people to do whatever they want in that arena. > >I think it might be good for me to state my vision. This is all >stuff that y'all know about me already. > >(1) Copyright -- is the most important thing to me. I want every file > in testsuite/ to bear a valid FSF copyright notice. > >(2) Testing submissions -- I mean to require that every patch says > how it was tested (or not tested). I don't think it's useful > to formalize or standardize how a patch is tested beyond that. Does that translate into every bug reported eventually gets a test? Would it make sense to add the test for a reported bug before a patch to fix it is submitted? I don't know who would be tasked with doing something like that but it would sort of make sure that no bug was lost as the test suite FAILs steadily rise... cgf