On 27/07/07, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 11:26:22AM +0100, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > > Just an example. There are people that post patches in bugzilla and > > they seem interested in getting them integrated but normally they > > break coding style or don't have changelog or didn't even run the > > testsuite. Of course, the easiest answer is to point to the "how to > > contribute" webpage. I have done it too. But I must admit that it is a > > poor answer. When I started, I couldn't bring myself to read all that > > was required to post a proper patch. > > I could. Easily. But I also knew that I was going to submit more than > just one or two patches. Maybe we can figure out a simpler procedure for > those who will likely submit just one or two patches, where someone > volunteers to fix the formatting, write the ChangeLog entry, do the testing > and anything else that needs to be done for the patch to go in.
Really? You read everything that is linked from http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html ? (and that doesn't explain for example how to create testcases). Anyway, I never said that nobody will be able to learn to program by reading the ISO C standard. I am sure there are people like that out there. They are not the majority, though. About your idea, I will rather prefer to be taught how to do it and for people to have patience when I make a mistake (but point it out nonetheless so I can correct it). But, yes, perhaps people that are going to submit one or two patches cannot be bothered. Can't speak about that, it is not my case. Cheers, Manuel.
