On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:58:13AM -0700, Mark Mitchell wrote: > Janis Johnson wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 06:36:07PM +0200, Steven Bosscher wrote: > >> * Very few people know how to use Janis' scripts, so to encourage > >> people to use them, the release manager could write a wiki page with a > >> HOWTO for these scripts (or ask someone to do it). Regression hunting > >> should only be easier now, with SVN's atomic commits. But the easier > >> and more accessible you make it for people to use the available tools, > >> the harder it gets for people to justify ignoring their bugs to "the > >> rest of us". > > > > The RM can encourage me to do this; I've already been meaning to for a > > long time now. > > You may certainly consider yourself encouraged. :-)
Gosh, thanks! > > One silly thing holding me back is not quite knowing what needs > > copyrights and license notices and what doesn't. Some scripts are > > large and slightly clever, others are short and obvious. > > For safety sake, we should probably get assignments on them. I'm not > sure how hard it is to get IBM to bless contributing the scripts. If > it's difficult, but IBM doesn't mind them being made public, perhaps we > could just put them somewhere on gcc.gnu.org, outside of the official > subversion tree. I have IBM permission to contribute them to GCC. An earlier version for CVS is in contrib/reghunt with formal FSF copyright and GPL statements. I've sent later versions to gcc-patches as a way to get them to particular people who wanted to try them out. My inclination is to put full copyright/license statements on the bigger ones and just "Copyright FSF <dates>" on the small ones. Janis
