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Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 10:29:31 +0400
- Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
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> 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)
> 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.
--
Joel