Re: which patches to review

Andrew Cagney
2002-04-26T03:33:16Z

> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:45:51PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
>>>Hmm. I was under the impression that 1) Andrew was the head maintainer
>>>for gdb
>
>>
>>If so, this isn't said anywhere. It certainly may be true; all I know
>>is that he's a blanket write maintainer and the release manager for the
>>last several releases. If the GDB projects has a single head
>>maintainer, perhaps that should be listed in gdb/MAINTAINERS somewhere?
>
>
> It's true. Maybe "head maintainer" is the wrong word. I don't know what
> the correct PC term is.

The PC term is GDB Adminstrator. The details are all in the mail archives.

> You're correct, however, in saying that this isn't mentioned anywhere
> obvious. I agree that should be corrected.
>
> Maybe we should make a new hard rule that no further changes to
> MAINTAINERS will be accepted until this oversight is corrected. :-)

I don't see a reason to identify one global write maintainer as being
different to any other.

Andrew