On 24 April 2010 22:37, Richard Guenther <richard.guent...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> We had a patch tracking system, and it was completely ignored by most >> maintainers. > > Indeed - we do not need another piece of infrastructure. Note that good > patch review takes a lot of time and we (unfortunately again) do not have > many active patch reviewers. So it happens that patches from people > with excellent track history get approved quickly but others are just > left behind. Pinging the patches does usually help here, as well as > working with maintainers during the patch creation so that the final > review is easy.
But this is not a piece of infrastructure for reviewers but for *submitters*. Anyway, the patch tracker is not the main point. The point is how we alleviate this problem? You see that a few already mentioned that this was a reason to NOT contribute to GCC. People that probably have solved the legal issues, were knowledgeable enough to modify, build and test GCC, and then submit a patch. And they left because of this. That is sad. Cheers, Manuel. > > Richard. > >> Ciao! >> Steven >> >
