From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27535 invoked by alias); 2 Oct 2003 06:29:38 -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 27528 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2003 06:29:36 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (65.49.0.121) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 2 Oct 2003 06:29:36 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E2C32B89; Thu, 2 Oct 2003 02:29:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3F7BC5CF.70803@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 06:29:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stan Shebs Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Features vs infrastructure (was Re: Tracepoint support in Cygnus GDB ?) References: <3F717475.33E13BC4@india.hp.com> <6654-Wed24Sep2003201904+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F72FF8C.3080104@redhat.com> <6654-Sat27Sep2003132618+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75A491.4010203@redhat.com> <1659-Sat27Sep2003204134+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F75D8D3.2090207@redhat.com> <2427-Sun28Sep2003102631+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F76EC92.6010005@redhat.com> <4098-Sun28Sep2003234119+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> <3F775F6C.8070209@redhat.com> <3F784618.50203@redhat.com> <3F7B4BEC.1060800@apple.com> <3F7B9B85.50201@redhat.com> <3F7BC005.9050707@apple.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-10/txt/msg00052.txt.bz2 > > OK, I see plenty there, but most look like infrastructure changes, > and of the 139 items, I still can't tell which are the most > important features that users have been waiting for. That's > where a real document comes in handy; you can use it to explain > why features A, B, and C are more important than D, E, and F, > or why feature G must wait for infrastructure changes H, I, and J. Bugzilla lets you specify bug dependencies, and lets users vote on bug urgency. Joel? (well they were canadian), from memory, also observed that GDBs contribute page should point the new developer in the direction of a few easy/mundane tasks. Andrew