Re: Possible Bug Fix/No Reply on Bugzilla
On 27/09/17 21:56, nick wrote: Greetings All, I commented here a few names ago, https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82230. Not to be a annoyance but I have a school assignment and would like someone to reply if it's correct or something. I am assuming it's probably wrong but any comment would be very helpful before I sent in a patch to the patches list to get merged for the fix. Take care, Nick Dear Nick, Long time ago, I was in your position as a newbie volunteer contributor. Please let me share some suggestions that I hope would help you to direct your efforts in the most useful and least frustrating way possible: * Nobody can reply to all comments in bugzilla, there are just too many. * People contributing to GCC are already very busy with their own projects, bugs, priorities. Unfortunately, there is very little time left for mentoring, in particular of sporadic contributors: You are more likely to get a reply if you are a frequent contributor. You have to be very self-motivated, because the start will be slow (I have more tips to share about how to overcome this phase if you are interested). * People may not know the answer to what you are asking or it may require investing a significant amount of time to find out the answer, thus they reply nothing. * People are not likely to spend time testing a fix that is "probably wrong". They would hope that you make the effort to test it yourself. How to move your fix forward? My suggestion would be: Check that it works. Check out trunk, apply your fix, create a testcase, run the testsuite and check that it fixes the issue and it doesn't break anything else. More detailed instructions: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GettingStarted#Basics:_Contributing_to_GCC_in_10_easy_steps I'd also suggest to read: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Community Happy hacking! Manuel.
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Re: Possible Bug Fix/No Reply on Bugzilla
Sir, On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 4:03 PM, Manuel López-Ibáñez wrote: > On 27/09/17 21:56, nick wrote: >> >> Greetings All, >> >> I commented here a few names ago, >> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=82230. Not >> to be a annoyance but I have a school assignment and would like someone to >> reply if it's >> correct or something. I am assuming it's probably wrong but any comment >> would be very >> helpful before I sent in a patch to the patches list to get merged for the >> fix. >> >> Take care, >> Nick > > > Dear Nick, > > Long time ago, I was in your position as a newbie volunteer contributor. > Please let me share some suggestions that I hope would help you to direct > your efforts in the most useful and least frustrating way possible: > > * Nobody can reply to all comments in bugzilla, there are just too many. > > * People contributing to GCC are already very busy with their own projects, > bugs, priorities. Unfortunately, there is very little time left for > mentoring, in particular of sporadic contributors: You are more likely to > get a reply if you are a frequent contributor. You have to be very > self-motivated, because the start will be slow (I have more tips to share > about how to overcome this phase if you are interested). > I would very much appreciate this information. A number of years ago, now, I started trying to do something very simple. Now I am here, because this is the most direct way to accomplish what I was trying to do. When I type most questions I have into Google I get no results, and when I ask them I receive no responses. I can not remember what I was originally trying to do. Respectfully, R0b0t1
