Daniel Berlin <dberlin@dberlin.org> writes:
On 11 Jul 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:
> A procedural nit: putting "PATCH" in the subject line means by
> convention that you've committed, or are about to commit, the patch in
> your message. If you're submitting a patch for approval, you should
> put "RFA" in your subject.
You are aware, that the idea that putting [PATCH] in the line means you
are committing a patch, is pretty much different than every other
project?
No, I wasn't aware of that at all.
Look at GCC, fer instance.
[PATCH] means it's a patch, to be looked at.
It's very confusing to submit patches to GDB, when it's the only one with
different procedures.
It seems to me GDB's conventions have been working pretty well, but
maybe that's because we deal with regular contributors. But if there
are, in fact, established, widely-used conventions, then I think GDB
should use them.
It gets regular comments and does confuse people. There have been
several attempts but no one has come up with a convention that sticks.