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Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 11:12:08 +0100
- Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
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On 05/22/2013 07:29 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Now we just need to convince others. :-)
>
> Next thing we know, we will be getting rid of ChangeLog files also :-)
> (which I have done for the AdaCore version, btw)
That I'm not so sure. I do find them useful for archaeology. My
current view mirrors Alexandre's here, so I'll just make his words
mine :-) :
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2013-04/msg00100.html
>
>> As someone that has done _lots_ of archaeology on gdb's code,
>> including going further back beyond the cvs import, I've often
>> had trouble matching ChangeLogs to mailing list discussions, and
>> then often will still not find a clear rationale if I actually
>> find a match. I can only wish people had been doing it too
>> "back then".
>
> Same on my end - I constantly go back in history, both with the FSF
> and AdaCore repositories, and found that they help tremendously.
>
--
Pedro Alves