On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 6:55 PM, Gerald Pfeifer <ger...@pfeifer.com> wrote: > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Richard Biener wrote: >> Why remove ChangeLog files, web pages and comments? > > I was going to complain about web pages being removed. :-) > > On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Diego Novillo wrote: >> -<p>Fixes for obvious typos in ChangeLog files, docs, web pages, comments >> -and similar stuff. Just check in the fix and copy it to >> -<code>gcc-patches</code>. We don't want to get overly anal-retentive >> -about checkin policies.</p> >> +<p>Obvious fixes can be committed without prior approval. Just check >> +in the fix and copy it to <code>gcc-patches</code>. A good test to >> +determine whether a fix is obvious: <q>will the person who objects to >> +my work the most be able to find a fault with my fix?</q> If the fix >> +is later found to be faulty, it can always be rolled back. We don't >> +want to get overly restrictive about checkin policies.</p> > > I am in favor of this change. > > To some extent, this is more a clarification of what I have seen as > our current policy than a change in policy, though to a laywer-minded > person it surely looks like the latter. Not sure what kind of approval > this needs? Mind it has.
I have not received any feedback against this change. I will wait another 48 hours and commit. Diego.