Subject: [PATCH] Add a word about warnings to CONTRIBUTE

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2022 09:42:16 -0500

Severity: wishlist

Any comments?

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index 94d757daaf..fe03fe0afc 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTE
+++ b/CONTRIBUTE
@@ -165,6 +165,11 @@ test 'out-of-tree' builds as well, i.e.:
     ../path-to-emacs-sources/configure
     make

+In most cases, any given change is required not to introduce any test
+failures or warnings.  There are exceptions: for example, we don't
+usually care about warnings from ancient or buggy compilers, but we do
+try to pacify warnings from stable versions of GCC.
+
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