Janis Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: >> * Very few people know how to use Janis' scripts, so to encourage >> people to use them, the release manager could write a wiki page with a >> HOWTO for these scripts (or ask someone to do it). Regression hunting >> should only be easier now, with SVN's atomic commits. But the easier >> and more accessible you make it for people to use the available tools, >> the harder it gets for people to justify ignoring their bugs to "the >> rest of us". > > The RM can encourage me to do this; I've already been meaning to for a > long time now.
You may certainly consider yourself encouraged. :-) > One silly thing holding me back is not quite knowing what needs > copyrights and license notices and what doesn't. Some scripts are > large and slightly clever, others are short and obvious. For safety sake, we should probably get assignments on them. I'm not sure how hard it is to get IBM to bless contributing the scripts. If it's difficult, but IBM doesn't mind them being made public, perhaps we could just put them somewhere on gcc.gnu.org, outside of the official subversion tree. Thanks, -- Mark Mitchell CodeSourcery [EMAIL PROTECTED] (650) 331-3385 x713
