On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 at 18:30, Martin Sebor <mse...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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.
Which is why I didn't mention release managers in the actual patch. I changed "GNU Project" to "GCC project", because the GNU Project does not do our releases, we do (via the RMs). > > > > > 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 >
