Re: Maintenance of the Hurd parts in glibc

[Luis Araujo]

Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:19:17PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>>    >    Registering patches in the glibc bugzilla had been made a
>>    >    requirement by the glibc (release) maintainers to get them into the
>>    >    non-HEAD branches, and since that was to a large share what we've
>>    >    been working on, this seemed the most suitable way to publish them,
>>    >    additionally to having published them on the bug-hurd mailing list.
>>    >
>>    > The Hurd only follows HEAD.
>>
>>    I'm curious: why are you to state what the Hurd does and what not?
>>
>> 'cause uncle Rollie said so.
> 
> Please go on, that's interesting.  You say that ``uncle Rollie'' -- as
> you call him -- enabled you to state what the Hurd does and what not?
> That's surprising given that you have explicitly been excluded from the
> Hurd project with the Hurd maintainers consent.
> 
> Save that, ``uncle Rollie'' also was the one to tell me to register
> patches we want to get into the glibc non-HEAD branches in the glibc
> bugzilla.
> 
> 
>  T. Schwinge

Or probably, because he is one of the few people who has actually done
some 'real' work on the Hurd around here and he has won that right at
some degree.

Regards,