Review request (S): 7140882 (Was: Re: Patch to fix build breakage with GCC 4.7)

Andrew Hughes ahughes at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 15:38:51 UTC 2012


----- Original Message -----
> 

> Deepak, I saw that you are an "author" for the JDK projects, but not
> for
> the HSX project. Thus, I can't create the changeset as your user.
> Instead I list you as "Contributed-by". That field only supports
> email
> addresses. Here is what the changeset will look like:
> 
> changeset:   3021:f457154eee8b
> tag:         tip
> user:        brutisso
> date:        Mon Jan 30 12:36:49 2012 +0100
> files:       src/share/vm/oops/constantPoolOop.cpp
> src/share/vm/opto/loopnode.cpp
> description:
> 7140882: Don't return booleans from methods returning pointers
> Summary: Changed "return false" to "return NULL"
> Reviewed-by: dholmes, rottenha
> Contributed-by: dbhole at redhat.com
> 
> Bengt
> 
> >

(ccing discuss)

That seems wrong.  No-one commits to the jdk projects directly, so
what's the point in being a committer/reviewer there?

Both Deepak and I have pushed patches to various repositories before.
Why are our rights being taken away like this?
-- 
Andrew :)

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