Re: [RFA] Sparc/Linux fixes part 1

["David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>]

   From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
   Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 23:06:12 -0400
   
   Please also appreciate that GDB runs on international time and most 
   everyone on this list has a day job. Your changes will be reviewed but 
   perhaphs not in the timeframe you seem to expect.

My expectation is set based upon how the patches of others
are treated.

I produced a backlog of 12 patches, then Jason Thorpe posted his
patch.  You choose to review his change before any of the rest of
mine.

This is not the first time I've seen this kind of thing happen.
And it isn't because foo's patch is simpler than bar's patch, so
don't go down that road.

And honeslty, I find it erroneous to take out on me the fact that the
GDB maintainers don't have the time necessary to do their job.  I am
offering my time and assistance, as a mechanism to take some of the
load off of your shoulders.

My objective is to make is so that you need to spend less time on GDB
issues, so that when a Sparc specific bug is fielded, you can push it
to me instead of looking at it yourself.

By complaining that you don't have any time, you create a
self-fulfilling prophecy.  Because if you don't review submissions by
"up and coming" people in a timely manner, they get discouraged and go
away instead of eventually becomming "trusted" GDB developers who can
take the load off of your shoulders.

And again, you had time to look at Jason's patch from today and
decided to preempt looking at any of my backlog from the previous
day.

So my offer still stands, either make me sparc maintainer or assure me
that reviews will be performed in a timely manner.