Laurent GUERBY wrote:
> Looks good. I think it would be slightly more secure to have people
> commit the patch with a unique name in some access-controlled CVS
> (either some subdir of the GCC one or a new local one) than relying on
> email "From" fields at the cost of minor inconvenience.
> 

We also can enforce the rules by asking that patches to be signed, but
after all, GCC contributors are well educated hackers.

> Also for the cvs update, I assume one of the machine will do an
> rsync of the whole CVS repository to factor external bandwidth cost
> and it enables some binary search stuff at no external bandwidth cost.
> 

okay.

> On IRC, I was reminded that some developpers have machine that are less
> powerfull than the old donated servers or don't have x86 access, so they
> may use them to test their patch before submission. People in this case,
> please send me a private email so that I'm able to count the number of
> developpers that could benefit just from the access to some machine to
> do GCC work.
> 

Indeed, this is another service that can be provided.

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