Subject: Re: bug#57041: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 18:15:41 +0300

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:05:09 +0200
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > But I see no particular reasons to describe exceptions.
> 
> This does seem useful to state explicitly:
> 
> + we don't
> +usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
> +try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.
> 
> Because it has happened that people have submitted patches to pacify
> ancient gcc versions, and that's not useful work.

Why do we have to say this in CONTRIBUTE, though?  It's already too
long; making it longer will just increase the probability of TL;DR,
and no one's the wiser.