On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Janis Johnson wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote:
> >> * Very few people know how to use Janis' scripts, so to encourage
> >> people to use them, the release manager could write a wiki page with a
> >> HOWTO for these scripts (or ask someone to do it).  Regression hunting
> >> should only be easier now, with SVN's atomic commits. But the easier
> >> and more accessible you make it for people to use the available tools,
> >> the harder it gets for people to justify ignoring their bugs to "the
> >> rest of us".
> > 
> > The RM can encourage me to do this; I've already been meaning to for a
> > long time now.
> 
> You may certainly consider yourself encouraged. :-)

Gosh, thanks!

> > One silly thing holding me back is not quite knowing what needs
> > copyrights and license notices and what doesn't.  Some scripts are
> > large and slightly clever, others are short and obvious.
> 
> For safety sake, we should probably get assignments on them.  I'm not
> sure how hard it is to get IBM to bless contributing the scripts.  If
> it's difficult, but IBM doesn't mind them being made public, perhaps we
> could just put them somewhere on gcc.gnu.org, outside of the official
> subversion tree.

I have IBM permission to contribute them to GCC.  An earlier version for
CVS is in contrib/reghunt with formal FSF copyright and GPL statements.
I've sent later versions to gcc-patches as a way to get them to
particular people who wanted to try them out.  My inclination is to put
full copyright/license statements on the bigger ones and just "Copyright
FSF <dates>" on the small ones.

Janis

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