Re: [commit] Add add_setshow_enum_cmd, use in mips

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 18:41:44 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, cagney@gnu.org,
> 	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > That might be tough, but we all do precisely that when the file in
> > question is not in our maintainership area.
> 
> You've said that quite a few times now :-)  But this isn't a documented
> policy, and it doesn't seem to be a widely followed one, either.

What Andrew did isn't documented, either.

> We can't improve the code quality and design, which have suffered over
> time, if we can't make progress on patches.  Indeed, the longer it
> takes for every single change to go in, the less incentive there is to
> clean anything up!  I'm sure losing incentive to fix things.

Then let's abandon the patch reviewing procedure completely and just
commit whatever each one of us global maintainers finds appropriate.
There are projects that actually work that way (Emacs, for example).
I have no problem with that, as long as it is consistent and
documented.