Re: which patches to review

Stan Shebs
2002-04-26T16:26:41Z

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:36:11PM -0400, Christopher Faylor 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?

The old situation was that from the point of view of the FSF, I
was the sole maintainer, and that everybody else was at most
"helpers" (I kid you not). After the formation of the GDB
Steering Committee - which was never announced by RMS like he
was supposed to - I proposed to the committee that I retire
as maintainer, but that we retain the concept of a single
head or chief maintainer, mainly to avoid the evils of committee
indecisiveness, and that Andrew be that chief maintainer.
There was basically no reaction either positive or negative, not
exactly a ringing endorsement, but certainly justifying my
concern about the decisionmaking abilities of committees! :-)

So we've proceeded on that basis "unofficially" since then, and it
seems to have worked well enough. You're right that it ought to
be documented; I can do it if the head maintainer is shy about
taking the crown and putting it on his own head. :-)

Stan