On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Daniel Berlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> A bi-weekly status report of the patch tracker sent to gcc-patches >>> would definitively make the list of unreviewed patches more visible. I >>> believe this may also be a problem for the continuous builder: If >>> there is no visible feedback from it, that is, if one needs to >>> actively check its status, then it is likely to be missed/neglected. >> >> I did this for about 2 weeks, and was asked privately by a few to stop >> because they saw it as spam. > > Sending those reports to the mailing list was always the main use I > saw for the patch tracker. I'd like to open this issue up. Who would > consider those reports to be spam? Who would be opposed to > reinstating the patch tracker and having it send out notes about > patches which have not been reviewed? > > Back at Cygnus I wrote a script which sent out a daily report for bugs > which had not been fixed, and I think it was very helpful. A daily > report is not appropriate here, but I think that a weekly report is.
I'm happy to reinstate the tracker for this purpose if i'm not going to get yelled at :)
