On 7/27/21 9:16 AM, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches wrote:
Should we make this change?
Firstly, these bullet points are full sentences and so should end with
a period (or smiley, in some cases).
I'd expect that to be relatively uncontroversial ;)
Secondly, releases are not issued by the GNU Project at all, they're
issued by the GCC release managers.
I (and I suspect most users unfamiliar with the inner workings of
the project) think of release managers as acting on behalf of
the whole project, so even though they technically cut the release
it's still put out by the project as a whole.
Finally, "releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by ..." has confused
at least one bug reporter, and I think saying "unofficial releases or
snapshots" makes it slightly clearer. Comparatively few users actually
use a self-built GCC based on official source tarballs, but that's OK.
Distro builds tend to be much closer to upstream these days, and we
rarely reject bug reports where the reporter is using a build from
Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch or whatever (unless it really is caused by a
downstream patch and doesn't reproduce with a gcc.gnu.org release).
OK for wwwdocs?
It makes sense to me. I'd also correct the grammar in "report them
to whoever" either by changing it "report them to whomever" or by
rephrasing it (e.g., "report them to the provider of the release").
Martin
