"Joseph S. Myers" <jos...@codesourcery.com> writes: > At the human level I suspect it would help to have people who watch for > submissions from non-regulars (including those attached to Bugzilla) and > help them prepare patches following all the usual conventions and get them > reviewed (checking for copyright assignments at an early stage as needed) > and make sure the submissions don't get lost. At the technical level, > while submissions on gcc-patches take a wide variety of forms, approvals > are more restricted; it ought to be possible for software to do a > reasonably good job of tracking which submissions have been reviewed / > approved / committed (including noticing people trying to submit patches > through Bugzilla), and of identifying the most likely relevant maintainers > to review patches, aided by humans in keeping the data clean.
I agree, and I think it is in fact precisely at this step where a distributed version control system can be most helpful. But I'm not going to belabor the point. Ian
