On Wed, 25 Feb 2026 at 14:38, Richard Biener via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2026 at 3:24 PM David Malcolm via Gcc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2026-02-25 at 08:38 +0000, Kyrylo Tkachov via Gcc wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I gave a talk at last Cauldron in Porto about starting upstream patch > > > review and addressing some common issues that potential new reviewers > > > face. I was asked to put the content together on a wiki page. > > > Apologies for the delay, but I’ve done that now at: > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/StartingPatchReview > > > It should be visible from the wiki home page too. > > > Feel free to extend it with more review guidance or correct things > > > that y > > > > Thanks - this looks really good. > > Indeed. May I suggest to amend contribute.html to mention patch review as > well, > possibly pointing to above? > > IMO the contributing web pages could see some love,
I tried to do that previously, modernising the guidance and removing duplication between https://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html#patches and https://gcc.gnu.org/codingconventions.html#ChangeLogs I'll update those patches and try again - I didn't agree with most of the feedback I got last time, as it was not really related to what I was changing. > also more prominently > visible from the gcc.gnu.org landing page. The toplevel menu group (About > GCC) > should be refactored a bit, have a larger font, and just have "About" > "Obtaining GCC" > "Using GCC" and "Contributing". I appreciate we have lots of > interesting info on > the Wiki but gcc.gnu.org/ is where people will look for info. > > Richard. > > > > > Dave > >
