Re: On pull request workflows for the GNU toolchain

Jeffrey Walton via Gdb
2024-09-23T12:55:20Z

On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 8:08 AM Thomas Koenig via Gdb
<gdb@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> [For the fortran people: Discussion on gcc@]
>
> Just a general remark.
>
> There are people, such as myself, who regularly mess up
> their git repositories because they have no mental model
> of what git is doing (case in point: The Fortran unsigned
> branch, which I managed to put into an unrepairable state
> despite considerable help from people who tried to help me
> fix it). This is especially true of volunteer maintainers,
> who are still the mainstay of gfortran.

++.

Thousands of upvotes on Stack Overflow questions about simple Git
tasks indicate usability problems in Git, and not a great question on
social media. Confer, <https://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/351700>.

> Whatever you end up doing, consider such maintainers, and
> if they still can contribute or would simply give up.
> If what you end up doing is too complicated, it may end up
> severely impacting the gfortran project (and possibly others).

Jeff