On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 07:20:55AM -0700, Jason Dagit wrote:
That wiki page doesn't say how long the discussion period should be or give advice on how to determine the size. What would you recommend for this patch?
I just updated the page to recommend 2 weeks, which I think is the status quo.
So it sounds like the things I missed were: * putting "Proposal:" in the subject line * setting a discussion period * attaching my patch to the trac instance (can I send a pull request on github instead?)
You don't need to make a trac ticket for it until the proposal has been accepted. Anything that means we see that the patch needs to be applied is OK. Currently pull requests don't get sent to the mailing list though, and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to set that up. I also didn't notice a rationale for the change. The type signatures looked the same as for the malloc functions, so I don't know what the difference is. Thanks Ian