Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[Andrew Cagney]

> - the other GDB perenial - stagnation
> > More for the record.  I'm always seeing pressure to slow GDB's 
> > development, principably because it makes the maintenance of 
> > uncontributed code harder.  Last year saw an increased level of pressure 
> > intended to slow GDB's development, I'm guessing in responce to an 
> > increase in GDB's rate of development.

> Please expand upon this, for my education.  The proposed changes are
> pressure (from GDB developers) to increase the rate of GDB's
> development further.  I think that is more relevant to GDB as a GNU
> project than commercial pressure to slow development - none of which I
> remember seeing discussed publicly.

(I wasn't actually speaking to that proposal, rather responding to RMS's 
question of what problems I was seeing)

Lobying and similar pressures are, by definition, just beyond the public 
eye: back room deals, secret phone conferences, closed mailing lists, 
hidden web sites, ....  However, it is still there.

Andrew