Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[David Carlton]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:52:15 -0500, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> said:

>     Having said that, I would say that, if the rules proposed had been in
>     place for the last year, then GDB 6.0 would have had better support
>     for C++ nested types and namespaces, and that it would also have had
>     non-user-visible changes to improve its maintainability

> Off-hand I would not say this is a terrible problem--especially if
> some of them are being installed now.  I suppose the maintainers had
> some reason not to want to install that code as it was written.

You seem to be assuming that the patches in question were rejected
until they could be revised.  This is not the case - the patches in
question simply weren't looked at for months, on multiple occasions.

David Carlton
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