From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:15:41 +0300 Message-ID: <83wnbkw0de.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8335e8xfpk.fsf@gnu.org> <87sfm8ytzu.fsf@gnus.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="18969"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 57041@debbugs.gnu.org, stefan@marxist.se To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 07 17:17:30 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi1y-0004na-6x for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:17:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47822 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi1x-0001b0-5w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:17:29 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:39966) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi1X-0001Zf-01 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:17:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:48420) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi1W-0008CX-4f for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:17:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi1V-0007D1-TZ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:17:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 15:17:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 57041 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: patch Original-Received: via spool by 57041-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B57041.165988536427641 (code B ref 57041); Sun, 07 Aug 2022 15:17:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 57041) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Aug 2022 15:16:04 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38169 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi0Z-0007Bk-PZ for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:16:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:55172) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi0Y-0007B5-6z for 57041@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:16:02 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:55830) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi0S-00080t-HJ; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:15:56 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=ZMwsQk6pwytpLJQc+/SmtMHqfZL6rT1Og50NCVuYFag=; b=WyuXfkgKu0K/ wlXWiLaR/7CAyFaikld+DNtjiiqPQgkIprBQZB1hwruEYNeYALsthzq4DHUiGaFAZN93eISDq0fP8 BoJRxT+P4kbtJ3YKyN6GzHvrjR0t//+zBTAVIQ5iQeO3yFqROCGgz1qzh8CkGVtGSB1PVAXiMz0WD 4en5Q1LTOFFini/n5C2P6e3G2gVQOJphZO5Q03skIMYv67AKcrUMNL9G8C9/+MzxFWuDsAXTDkVpM NQUhW/n/RvBVEonbTIgVJf7YJqQjhepuvWNvJuh2DGeDmiPBzkYO8ENI3q/Tv6ZG3Yc2Q3M5Wzq7P YG9bhnLC92ztiiROOOU2+g==; Original-Received: from [87.69.77.57] (port=2134 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oKi0R-0007CW-Po; Sun, 07 Aug 2022 11:15:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87sfm8ytzu.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:239076 Archived-At: > From: Lars Ingebrigtsen > Cc: Stefan Kangas , 57041@debbugs.gnu.org > Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii 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.