I promised Martin to look into adding more information to gcc.gnu.org/about.html for new contributors.
This isn't the actual meat, but a number of changes I found while preparing for that. Applied (last weekend actually). Gerald Split a long sentence. Adjust the intro. Add a note to add [wwwdocs] to mail subjects. Streamline notes how to check-in. Index: about.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/gcc/wwwdocs/htdocs/about.html,v retrieving revision 1.27 diff -u -r1.27 about.html --- about.html 2 Feb 2017 21:37:32 -0000 1.27 +++ about.html 6 May 2018 14:27:42 -0000 @@ -11,19 +11,20 @@ <p>These pages are maintained by the GCC team and it's easy to <a href="contribute.html#webchanges">contribute</a>.</p> -<p>The web effort was originally led by Jeff Law. For the last decade -or so Gerald Pfeifer has been leading the effort, but there are +<p>The web effort was originally led by Jeff Law. For the last two +decades or so Gerald Pfeifer has been leading the effort, but there are many <a href="https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Contributors.html";>contributors </a>.</p> <p>The web pages are under <a href="#cvs">CVS control</a>. The pages on gcc.gnu.org are updated directly after a -change has been committed; www.gnu.org is updated once a day at 4:00 -0700 +change has been committed. www.gnu.org is updated once a day at 4:00 -0700 (PDT).</p> <p>Please send feedback, problem reports and patches to our -<a href="lists.html">mailing lists</a>. +<a href="lists.html">mailing lists</a>, ideally putting the +string "[wwwdocs]" at the beginning of the mail subject. </p> @@ -62,10 +63,8 @@ <h3>Checking in a change</h3> -<p>The following is a very quick overview of how -to check in a change. We recommend you list files explicitly -to avoid accidental checkins and prefer that each checkin be of a -complete, single logical change.</p> +<p>We recommend you list files explicitly to avoid accidental checkins +and prefer that each checkin be of a complete, single logical change.</p> <ol> <li>Sync your sources with the master repository via "<code>cvs
