On Mon, Sep 23, 2024 at 8:09 AM Thomas Koenig via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.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).
As one such person who has messed up his fork of GCC, I'd just like to note that in my particular case at least, I messed it up because I was trying to apply GitHub's model for git usage, while the GCC project has a very different model for git usage, and the two don't exactly play very well with one another. I see switching to a pull request model as reducing the chances of people getting their forks into unusable states, rather than increasing 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 > > >
