Re: On pull request workflows for the GNU toolchain

Thomas Koenig via Gdb
2024-09-23T12:08:49Z

[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.

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).

Best regards

Thomas