Re: Newbie maintainer's first commit

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:09:06PM +0100, Svein E. Seldal wrote:
> Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> >>- When I am responsible for a specific target; What (specific)
> >>files/directories, if any, can I commit without getting prior
> >>approval?
> >
> >You are responsible for any target-specific code that is directly
> >related to the target that you maintain (ie the TIC4X) in the binutils
> >source repository.  (Note - just because you are a binutils
> >target-specific maintainer this does not mean that you are
> >automatically a gdb or gcc target-specific maintainer).
> 
> 
> Do I have to post a diff of the (target specific) changes that I'm going 
> to commit every time on the binutils mailinglist? I.e. of the files I'm 
> having the maintainer responsibility for. Or can I simply check them in 
> as I see fit?

Please post all patches.  That's especially useful to me for managing
release branches, etc.  And it lets people look over what's going on.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer