From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 57041@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se
Subject: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:15:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wnbkw0de.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfm8ytzu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 57041@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > But I see no particular reasons to describe exceptions.
>
> This does seem useful to state explicitly:
>
> + we don't
> +usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
> +try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.
>
> Because it has happened that people have submitted patches to pacify
> ancient gcc versions, and that's not useful work.
Why do we have to say this in CONTRIBUTE, though? It's already too
long; making it longer will just increase the probability of TL;DR,
and no one's the wiser.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-07 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-07 14:42 bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE Stefan Kangas
2022-08-07 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-08-07 15:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-08-07 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-08-18 10:55 ` Stefan Kangas
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