Re: Rewriting the type system

Daniel Berlin
2001-06-12T09:12:00Z

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> On 11 Jun 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote:
>
>> Even the very simple patch to add the misc obstack to the objfiles,
>> and stop putting things in the psymbol obstack that don't belong, from
>> May 29th, hasn't been reviewed yet.
>> Hell, the simple bcache change i submitted last year (updating the
>> starting constant, fix the indenting) still hasn't
>> been reviewed.
>>
>> Jim, GDB development is moving a lot slower than it should.
>
> My experience is very different. Every change that I suggested until
> now, for the past 2 years or so that I'm involved with GDB
> maintenance, was usually reviewed within 1-2 weeks of my posting it
> as an RFA. A few times I needed to post a reminder (I usually do that
> after more than a week's passed without any replies). A couple of
> times, I needed more than one reminder, but that's an exception rather
> than the rule, in my experience.
This is because you work on different parts of GDB then I do.
As I just pointed out to Stan, i'm not alone. I received 4 replies to the
message I posted saying "I know exactly how you feel" or "Your not
kidding". These are people who no longer contribute to GDB, saying
they are waiting for a time when they can get, for instance, a simple
Makefile.in patch, reviewed within 3 months.
That's sad.
>
> In most cases, I had my patches reviewed and approved in 2-3 weeks,
> sometimes a month. In one exceptional case, it took 3 or 4 months,
> but that was my first large submission, and I failed to ping the
> relevant maintainer more than once.
>
> So GDB development is not slow, in my opinion. More importantly, I'm
> always able to get my patches accepted by using the normal channels,
> such as pinging people from time to time.
>
> In other words, the development procedures work.
Maybe for your area of GDB.
Not for mine.
And apparently, not for some others.

Do you really think i'd complain if I was alone here?
If I thought it was just me?

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