From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7262 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2003 23:52:17 -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 7255 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2003 23:52:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 23:52:17 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B47EC2ED1; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 18:57:01 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E5419CD.8050203@redhat.com> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 23:52:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Molenda Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Elena Zannoni , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process References: <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <20030218042847.50F2E3CE5@localhost.redhat.com> <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <20030218023553.2BBB73D02@localhost.redhat.com> <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <15953.20132.193102.752916@localhost.redhat.com> <20030219014904.GA11446@nevyn.them.org> <3E539FF8.70201@redhat.com> <20030219152123.GA4751@nevyn.them.org> <3E53B0D9.2070009@redhat.com> <20030219153559.A77442@molenda.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00386.txt.bz2 > > > We've got two separate discussions here: The social conventions > and procedures for how patches are discussed/applied, and the > infrastructure to support those things. > > Using GNATS as the infrastructure to track patches is pathetic. Not as pathetic as `cagney's mailbox sitting on a lapbrick with a failing hard disk'. > Using mailing lists to track patches is annoying. Er, you can't track patches using a mailing list. A mailing list can be used to submit/discuss patches. It can't be used to track their state. that needs a database. Time to install aegis, ay? Andrew