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Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: brobecker at adacore dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 22 May 2013 17:56:09 +0300
- Subject: Re: contribution checklist in the wiki
- References: <51965CE3 dot 4020805 at redhat dot com> <20130520100618 dot GR4017 at adacore dot com> <519A3DCC dot 1020805 at redhat dot com> <20130521052552 dot GT4017 at adacore dot com> <519BB505 dot 60805 at redhat dot com>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 18:55:17 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
>
> As someone that has done _lots_ of archaeology on gdb's code,
> including going further back beyond the cvs import, I've often
> had trouble matching ChangeLogs to mailing list discussions, and
> then often will still not find a clear rationale if I actually
> find a match. I can only wish people had been doing it too
> "back then".
Perhaps we should encourage contributors to point to URL of the
discussion thread.