Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations

[David Carlton]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 20:33:21 +0200, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> said:

> The GDB committee is being reincarnated for a very specific reason.
> GDB development has been going on for quite some time without an
> active committee; we are reviving it now because the social dynamics
> between the current developers shows--how shall I put it?--symptoms
> of a certain instability that some of the developers think is
> serious enough to undermine the project's success in the long run.
> Do the other projects you mention have similar problems?  If not,
> their precedent is not very relevant to our case.

The GCC committee came out of the egcs split, if my history is
correct.  I'm not intimately familiar with the detailed problems that
happened at the time, so I don't know how good a precedent that is,
but there were surely issues with the social dynamics of GCC.

David Carlton
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