Drop MI maintenance

Drop MI maintenance

[Andrew Cagney]

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Fernando, Elena and I having discussed MI maintenance have decided to 
all take a step back.

(There's also a doco addition, eli, ok?)

Andrew

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2005-04-08  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@gnu.org>

	* MAINTAINERS (GDB/MI): Andrew Cagney, Elena Zannoni, and Fernando
	Nasser have decided to step back from GDB/MI.

Index: doc/ChangeLog
2005-04-08  Andrew Cagney  <cagney@gnu.org>

	* gdb.texinfo: Note that Andrew Cagney, Elena Zannoni, and
	Fernando Nasser implemented GDB/MI.

Index: MAINTAINERS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/MAINTAINERS,v
retrieving revision 1.309
diff -p -u -r1.309 MAINTAINERS
--- MAINTAINERS	12 Feb 2005 21:53:29 -0000	1.309
+++ MAINTAINERS	9 Apr 2005 00:28:21 -0000
@@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ gdbtk (c & tcl)		Jim Ingham		jingham@app
 			Keith Seitz		keiths@redhat.com
 libgui (w/foundry, sn)	Jim Ingham              jingham@apple.com
 			Keith Seitz		keiths@redhat.com
-mi (gdb/mi)		Andrew Cagney		cagney@redhat.com
-			Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
-			Fernando Nasser		fnasser@redhat.com
 tui			Stephane Carrez		stcarrez@nerim.fr
 			(Global Maintainers)
 
Index: doc/gdb.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.236
diff -p -u -r1.236 gdb.texinfo
--- doc/gdb.texinfo	2 Apr 2005 22:24:17 -0000	1.236
+++ doc/gdb.texinfo	9 Apr 2005 00:28:23 -0000
@@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ Romig-Koch, Rob Savoye, Jamie Smith, Mik
 Thomas, Michael Tiemann, Tom Tromey, Ron Unrau, Jim Wilson, and David
 Zuhn have made contributions both large and small.
 
+Andrew Cagney, Fernando Nasser, and Elena Zannoni, while working for
+Cygnus Solutions, implemented the original @sc{gdb/mi} interface.
+
 Jim Blandy added support for preprocessor macros, while working for Red
 Hat.
 

Re: Drop MI maintenance

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:32:11 -0400
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
> (There's also a doco addition, eli, ok?)

Yes.  But please wait with committing it until tomorrow, as I'm in the
middle of many changes in the manual.

Thanks.

Re: Drop MI maintenance

[Andrew Cagney]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 20:32:11 -0400
>>From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
>>
>>(There's also a doco addition, eli, ok?)
> 
> 
> Yes.  But please wait with committing it until tomorrow, as I'm in the
> middle of many changes in the manual.
Oops, Now done

Re: Drop MI maintenance

[Bob Rossi]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:32:11PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> Fernando, Elena and I having discussed MI maintenance have decided to 
> all take a step back.

I would like to let you all know how very much appreciated your work on
GDB/MI is. Without you all, there would be nothing here for the rest of
us to work on.

Andrew, although I've made my comments in the past about patch review time,
I still greatly appreciate the effort put into GDB/MI and the quality of
the patch review that was done, as time permitted.

With that said, I think there is something to say about the future of
MI. The text you wrote above can be taken in several ways. In
particular, what role do you or any other GDB maintainers plan to take
over the next several years in regards to GDB/MI?

I have several goals in mind for GDB/MI. I've posted several patches to
the list to modify the testsuite to do syntax checking. Is anyone going
to be able to allow this patch into GDB? or am I up the stream without a
maintainer?

Thanks,
Bob Rossi

Re: Drop MI maintenance

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:33:17PM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote:
> I have several goals in mind for GDB/MI. I've posted several patches to
> the list to modify the testsuite to do syntax checking. Is anyone going
> to be able to allow this patch into GDB? or am I up the stream without a
> maintainer?

Without a more specific maintainer, any global maintainer can review
MI patches.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC

Re: Drop MI maintenance

[Nick Roberts]

> Fernando, Elena and I having discussed MI maintenance have decided to all
> take a step back.

Well its a pretty thankless task so I'm not all that surprised.


> --- MAINTAINERS	12 Feb 2005 21:53:29 -0000	1.309
> +++ MAINTAINERS	9 Apr 2005 00:28:21 -0000
> @@ -241,9 +241,6 @@ gdbtk (c & tcl)		Jim Ingham		jingham@app
>  			Keith Seitz		keiths@redhat.com
>  libgui (w/foundry, sn)	Jim Ingham              jingham@apple.com
>  			Keith Seitz		keiths@redhat.com
> -mi (gdb/mi)		Andrew Cagney		cagney@redhat.com
> -			Elena Zannoni           ezannoni@redhat.com
> -			Fernando Nasser		fnasser@redhat.com
>  tui			Stephane Carrez		stcarrez@nerim.fr
>  			(Global Maintainers)

makes it look like MI is being made obsolete. Should the new MAINTAINERS
file not read?:

 libgui (w/foundry, sn)	Jim Ingham              jingham@apple.com
 			Keith Seitz		keiths@redhat.com
 mi (gdb/mi)		(vacant)
 tui			Stephane Carrez		stcarrez@nerim.fr

> --- doc/gdb.texinfo	2 Apr 2005 22:24:17 -0000	1.236
> +++ doc/gdb.texinfo	9 Apr 2005 00:28:23 -0000
> @@ -471,6 +471,9 @@ Romig-Koch, Rob Savoye, Jamie Smith, Mik
>  Thomas, Michael Tiemann, Tom Tromey, Ron Unrau, Jim Wilson, and David
>  Zuhn have made contributions both large and small.
 
> +Andrew Cagney, Fernando Nasser, and Elena Zannoni, while working for
> +Cygnus Solutions, implemented the original @sc{gdb/mi} interface.
> +
>  Jim Blandy added support for preprocessor macros, while working for Red
>  Hat.

Acknowledgement is already given in the section of GDB/MI and this also
includes Stan Shebs. It makes sense to move it though.

Anyway thanks for the work that you have done.


Nick