Re: [RFC/RFA] gdb/CONTRIBUTE update (most of the info is now on our wiki)

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 01/17/2016 08:24 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>  gdb/CONTRIBUTE | 109 +++++++--------------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 96 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/CONTRIBUTE b/gdb/CONTRIBUTE
> index 30f51cc..ddb436c 100644
> --- a/gdb/CONTRIBUTE
> +++ b/gdb/CONTRIBUTE
> @@ -4,14 +4,20 @@
>  GDB is a collaborative project and one which wants to encourage new
>  development.  You may wish to fix GDB bugs, improve testing, port GDB
>  to a new platform, update documentation, add new GDB features, and the
> -like. To help with this, there is a lot of documentation
> -available.. In addition to the user guide and internals manual
> -included in the GDB distribution, the GDB web pages also contain much
> -information.
> +like. To help with this, there is a lot of documentation available.
> +In addition to the user guide included in the GDB distribution,
> +the GDB web pages also contain much information. The GDB Wiki, in
> +particular, is where we collect and document a lot of information
> +regarding the GDB development process:
>  
> -You may also want to submit your change so that can be considered for
> -conclusion in a future version of GDB (see below).  Regardless, we
> -encourage you to distribute the change yourself.
> +        https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/
> +
> +You may also want to submit your change so they can be considered for
> +inclusion in a future version of GDB (see below).  Regardless, we
> +encourage you to distribute the change yourself.  To help you create
> +high-quality contributions, we maintain a Contribution Checklist:
> +
> +        https://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/ContributionChecklist
>  

Thanks a bunch for doing this.  It's been on my TODO for a long while
after this:

 https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2014-10/msg00636.html

IMO, we'd keep this file even more minimal, and instead of having
it point to the wiki page here, it'd point to:

  https://sourceware.org/gdb/contribute/

(which is also linked from the main page)

and that page would be the one that would mention the wiki.

My main reason would that the the "contribute" page in the web site
would be the canonical entry point, while the wiki page is a fast
moving target.  E.g., it's growing past a checklist, so I wouldn't
be surprised if we end up splitting it into separate pages at some
point (and end up changing the URL).

But TBC, I'm definitely already happy with what you propose.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves