[Gdbheads] GDB steering committee mailing list

[Andrew Cagney]

> Welcome to the GDB steering committee's public mailing list.
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> I'd like to continue the discussion Elena Zannoni started last
> December, that was interrupted by the holidays.

Elena Zannoni posted the attached complaint.  It flushed out a 
discussion that had been started months earlier by Eric Bachalo, along 
with Jim Blandy, Kevin Buitner, Michael Snyder and Corinna Cinschen.

>  We're still waiting
> for the following people, who are either committee members, or
> participants in the original discussion, to subscribe:
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> Andrew Cagney <address@hidden>
> Robert Dewar <address@hidden>
> Elena Zannoni <address@hidden>
> J.T. Conklin <address@hidden>
> Todd Whitesel <address@hidden>
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> They should have received the initial invitation I sent via GNU's
> Mailman software on Friday, the repeat invitation I sent on Tuesday,
> and the personal message I sent today.

Jim Blandy, I'm watching this list.  And have been since you sent out 
that post.

Andrew

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> Dialog among Gdb maintainers 
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> Fri, 5 Dec 2003 19:21:23 -0500
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> To all the Gdb global maintainers:
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> Jim Blandy                      address@hidden
> Kevin Buettner                  address@hidden
> Andrew Cagney                   address@hidden
> J.T. Conklin                    address@hidden
> Fred Fish                       address@hidden
> Daniel Jacobowitz               address@hidden
> Mark Kettenis                   address@hidden
> Peter Schauer                   address@hidden
> Stan Shebs                      address@hidden
> Michael Snyder                  address@hidden
> Elena Zannoni                   address@hidden
> Eli Zaretskii                   address@hidden
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> It has become very obvious in the e-mail exchanges on the gdb-patches
> mailing list, that there is a schism happening within the Gdb
> community.  Resentment has been brewing apparently for a long time and
> it is hard to ignore any longer.  I know for a fact that a group of
> Red Hat employees, some of which have no affiliation with Gdb or the
> FSF, has started some activity to modify the ways in which the Gdb
> community operates and interacts. Such people have also later expanded
> the discussions to include selected Gdb maintainers and
> contributors. The individuals that have been chosen to participate in
> such activities do not include all of the global maintainers. The head
> maintainer, Andrew Cagney, and I, have been excluded from such
> negotiations. I have no knowledge whether other global maintainers
> have been excluded as well, hence this mail to keep everybody
> informed, and try to keep alive a sense of community that I fear is
> lost, but maybe can be rekindled.
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> As of today, a week and a half after I came to know the facts above, I
> still have no knowledge of what kind of problems said group is trying
> to solve.  I have, at that time, pleaded that the issues be brought
> into the open, and that we have a discussion involving all the global
> maintainers. I have received no responses to the invitation.  I am
> therefore bringing this forth again, this time in a slightly different
> forum. See my e-mail to follow.
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> I also want to take the opportunity to make clear that I have no
> affiliation whatsoever with the Red Hat employees that fomented the
> discord. Together with Andrew Cagney and Jeff Johnston, I belong to a
> separate organization, with a completely disjoint reporting structure.
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