Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[Michael Snyder]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > > Who, from "Cygnus", do you see still being significantly involved in 
> > > development?
> >
> > Certainly all five of our global maintainers at Red Hat are still
> > significantly involved in development, and as far as I know they all
> > did GDB development at Cygnus.  There are others in the various parts
> > of Red Hat, also mostly originating from Cygnus.  Jeff, Corinna, and
> > Chris are the most active on that list.
>
>
> Heck, it's worse than that, since 8 of the 12 people listed as global
> maintainers in gdb/MAINTAINERS are either Cygnus/Red Hat or ex-Cygnus.
> (I don't know how many of those people are actively working on gdb.)
> The binutils are much worse--7 out of 8 global maintainers are Cygnus
> or ex-Cygnus.

Err, this is getting confusing.  Nobody works for Cygnus any more.
We're all either ex-cygnus or never-cygnus.  Some of us who are
ex-cygnus work for Red Hat now, some don't.  Andrew, Elena, Jim,
Kevin, Corinna, Ian and I are all ex-cygnus.  Of those named,
only Ian does not work for Red Hat.

> But I would have to agree that it doesn't really matter.

Sure seems to be coming up a lot...