On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Richard Biener wrote: > Why remove ChangeLog files, web pages and comments?
I was going to complain about web pages being removed. :-) On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Diego Novillo wrote: > -<p>Fixes for obvious typos in ChangeLog files, docs, web pages, comments > -and similar stuff. Just check in the fix and copy it to > -<code>gcc-patches</code>. We don't want to get overly anal-retentive > -about checkin policies.</p> > +<p>Obvious fixes can be committed without prior approval. Just check > +in the fix and copy it to <code>gcc-patches</code>. A good test to > +determine whether a fix is obvious: <q>will the person who objects to > +my work the most be able to find a fault with my fix?</q> If the fix > +is later found to be faulty, it can always be rolled back. We don't > +want to get overly restrictive about checkin policies.</p> I am in favor of this change. To some extent, this is more a clarification of what I have seen as our current policy than a change in policy, though to a laywer-minded person it surely looks like the latter. Not sure what kind of approval this needs? Mind it has. Gerald
