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Review Process [was: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem]
From: |
Tony Abou-Assaleh |
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Review Process [was: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem] |
Date: |
Fri, 24 Jun 2005 17:10:23 -0300 (ADT) |
Maybe we should add something about how we do things in:
http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html
It'd be useful for new developers. In particular, the life-cycle of a
bug/patch should be mentioned.
(Maybe it's already there, but I just couldn't find it)
Cheers,
TAA
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Tony Abou-Assaleh
Ph.D. Candidate, Faculty of Computer Science
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 1W5
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On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Tony Abou-Assaleh <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > What's the purpose of having more committers if we have active ones?
>
> I'm a bit of a special case, since I helped maintain grep (though I
> was never the official maintainer) and I understand parts of the
> source code quite well. For some global changes (in particular
> gnulib-related ones) it will be more convenient for me to install the
> changes, as they may be a bit tricky to explain precisely via a patch.
>
> Obviously I'd want to work within any existing review process. What
> is the process? Is it written down anywhere? I grepped for "review"
> in the grep source and didn't find anything.
>
> Part of the motivation here, to be honest, is to improve the activity
> rate of 'grep'. 'grep' was way too stagnant for quite some time.
> It's gotten better, but it's still too slow.
>
>
- grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Chris Hughes, 2005/06/22
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/23
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Paul Eggert, 2005/06/23
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/23
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Paul Eggert, 2005/06/23
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Tony Abou-Assaleh, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Paul Eggert, 2005/06/24
- Review Process [was: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem],
Tony Abou-Assaleh <=
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Tony Abou-Assaleh, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Paul Eggert, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/24
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/26
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Bob Proulx, 2005/06/26
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Charles Levert, 2005/06/23
- Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem, Paul Eggert, 2005/06/24