Hi Joseph,

On Fri, May 09, 2025 at 09:39:34PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > > > contrib/ChangeLog:
> > > > 
> > > >         * gcc-changelog/git_commit.py (GitCommit):
> > > >         Add support for 'Cc: ' and 'Link: ' tags.
> > > 
> > > Please remove this patch from this patch series; it has nothing to do 
> > > with 
> > > _Countof and would probably be reviewed by different people.
> > 
> > Who should review that?  Nobody applied it, nor replied to it.  (IIRC
> 
> Putting a patch in an unrelated series makes it *less* likely anyone will 
> look at it, since people concerned with that patch may be disjoint from 
> those concerned with the apparent subject of the series.  (So if a change 
> to one part of the compiler depends on a change to another, I think it's 
> always better to post the dependency separately, not as part of the main 
> series.)

IIRC, I did resend that patch also separate from this series a long time
ago, and no response.

> 
> > someone said the patch looks good, but not someone who should merge it,
> > so it was of no use.)  Please point me to the people who are responsible
> > for that.
> 
> People who have worked on that code lately?  (In practice people can 
> maintain their own scripts in contrib/, but Martin Liska is no longer 
> significantly active in GCC development so that doesn't help here.)

I did ping several people who touched that code lately, but they said
they weren't responsible for it.  :|

> > I disagree.  In projects I (co-)maintain, this info has been very
> > useful, for example to ask about a very old patch, where I couldn't
> > reach the author, but I could reach people that was CCd in discussions
> > leading to the patch.  Thanks to having their names in commit messages,
> > I could reach them.
> > 
> > But since you're the maintainer here, it's your prerrogative, so I can
> > drop them if you confirm I should do that.
> 
> I think CC should be dropped from commit messages.

Thanks; I'll do that for v20.  (And I'll drop patch 1/3, since it will
be unnecessary then.)


Have a lovely night!
Alex

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