Hi Jonathan,
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021, Jonathan Wakely via Gcc-patches wrote:
> Firstly, these bullet points are full sentences and so should end with
> a period (or smiley, in some cases).
>
> Secondly, releases are not issued by the GNU Project at all, they're
> issued by the GCC release managers.
>
> Finally, "releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by ..." has confused
> at least one bug reporter, and I think saying "unofficial releases or
> snapshots" makes it slightly clearer. Comparatively few users actually
> use a self-built GCC based on official source tarballs, but that's OK.
> Distro builds tend to be much closer to upstream these days, and we
> rarely reject bug reports where the reporter is using a build from
> Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch or whatever (unless it really is caused by a
> downstream patch and doesn't reproduce with a gcc.gnu.org release).
I noticed the first part went in back in August 2021, the second did not,
likely because I failed to ack the patch (and the first part was obviously
obvious).
Apologies for that. I now pushed the remainder of the original patch as
well; it's just simpler that way.
Gerald
commit 303c5592f31a73cc90e2a799fe0455873db512b2
Author: Jonathan Wakely <jwak...@redhat.com>
Date: Sun Mar 12 10:34:21 2023 +0100
bugs: Clarify meaning of "not issued by"
diff --git a/htdocs/bugs/index.html b/htdocs/bugs/index.html
index 765d8c67..3744a28f 100644
--- a/htdocs/bugs/index.html
+++ b/htdocs/bugs/index.html
@@ -116,8 +116,9 @@ three of which can be obtained from the output of <code>gcc
-v</code>:</p>
separate projects, with separate mailing lists and different bug
reporting procedures.</li>
- <li>Bugs in releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by the GNU
- Project. Report them to whoever provided you with the release.</li>
+ <li>Bugs in unofficial releases or snapshots of GCC not issued by
+ the GCC project. Report them to whoever provided you with that
+ version.</li>
<li>Questions about the correctness or the expected behavior of
certain constructs that are not GCC extensions. Ask them in forums
