[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules
From: |
Ian Lance Taylor |
Subject: |
Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules |
Date: |
29 Jan 2004 15:35:31 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Andrew Cagney <address@hidden> writes:
> Significantly, this dynamic is often absent in open groups. Typically
> an "area maintainer" title serves no real purpose other than to provide
> a fast-path for that individual's (or their employeers) changes. The
> mutual obligation of ensuring that patches are resolved, and
> development continues a pace being absent. That responsibility instead
> falls to the groups core developers.
...
> Since Cygnus was dominating development, and had most of the GDB
> developers on their payroll (at that time it including me), and to
> this day "Cygnus" still has the largest single block of devlopers, it
> had to be clear that no core developer, nor I as overall lead
> developer could override an area lead's decision (if we disagreed we
> had to present a pervasive technical argument).
Andrew, I'm having a hard time working out precisely what you are
saying, so, just to be crystal clear: do you object to that part of
the proposed change in the e-mail from Kevin Buettner, to wit, that
any global maintainer may approve any patch, even to an area which has
an area maintainer?
Ian
Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Andrew Cagney, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, David Carlton, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules,
Ian Lance Taylor <=
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Andrew Cagney, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/29
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Andrew Cagney, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Andrew Cagney, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Michael Snyder, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/01/30
- Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/01/31