On 7/26/07, Diego Novillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I would like to propose the creation a new mailing list: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >The purpose of this list is to attract and help new GCC developers who > >might feel lost and intimidated by the more arcane traffic at gcc and > >gcc-patches. In this list, no question regarding GCC development should > >be considered offtopic nor treated with "RTFM" responses.
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 02:05:50PM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote: > I think this is the wrong aproach. I have not seen any "RTFM" > response for questions of developing of GCC on the gcc@ list. Agreed. Also, I think that the charter that Diego describes sounds a lot like the charter for gcc-help. And since everyone will read "GCC development" as "development using GCC as the compiler" it would quickly become a general Linux/BSD/Unix/GNU tools questions list. What would go to gcc-help, and what to gcc-newbies? I think it's good enough what we have now. Also, I don't see the point in tossing junior or beginner gcc developers off of the main list. I think that when we do steer someone to a different list, we could take more care to be polite about it than we sometimes are.
