From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25594 invoked by alias); 1 Nov 2004 21:15:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 25565 invoked from network); 1 Nov 2004 21:15:48 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO legolas.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.24) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 1 Nov 2004 21:15:48 -0000 Received: from zaretski ([80.230.159.47]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.3-GR) with ESMTP id CZV15569 (AUTH halo1); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 23:15:10 +0200 (IST) Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 21:15:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Daniel Jacobowitz Message-ID: <01c4c057$Blat.v2.2.2$4cacd760@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041101051257.GA11134@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:12:57 -0500) Subject: Re: [commit] Add add_setshow_enum_cmd, use in mips Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <4183BD22.3090905@gnu.org> <01c4bed6$Blat.v2.2.2$fa231b20@zahav.net.il> <41856ECA.2060701@gnu.org> <01c4bfcd$Blat.v2.2.2$299ef260@zahav.net.il> <20041101051257.GA11134@nevyn.them.org> X-SW-Source: 2004-11/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 > Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 00:12:57 -0500 > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > > There is no maintainer for this area, and Andrew is entitled to > approve patches himself, so an RFA (request for approval) seems > unnecessary. Where do you see such a rule? It's not in MAINTAINERS, AFAICT. The rule that we do have is that if a certain maintenance area has no responsible maintainer, the _responsibility_ falls to the head maintainer. But my interpretation of this is that the responsibility is for reviewing patches, not for applying own patches without asking for approval. That's because it doesn't make sense to me to decide that whenever some area maintainer steps down, the head maintainer is automatically promoted to be an expert in that area. If you were not an expert in some area, the fact that the expert disappeared doesn't make you an expert, just the one who is burdened with more duties.