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Re: [PATCH] manual: Correct type in struct timeval/timespec.


On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Roland McGrath wrote:

> I don't think we should require bugs filed for changes to the manual.

Agreed.  I think the expectation to file bugs should only be for issues 
that were bugs in installed code, not documentation, that were 
user-visible in releases.  Not for new features, not for documentation 
issues, not for non-user-visible issues such as cleanups or testsuite 
defects (as opposed to user-visible bugs that happened to be shown up by a 
testsuite failure).  (It can still be useful to file bugs in some such 
cases - for example, to record that a well-defined cleanup is desired but 
you're not working on it - but not required for cleanups, manual issues 
etc. if you're sending the patch and taking charge of pinging it until it 
gets in.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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