From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19652 invoked by alias); 5 Jan 2003 15:40:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 19645 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2003 15:40:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by 209.249.29.67 with SMTP; 5 Jan 2003 15:40:54 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DF233D16; Sun, 5 Jan 2003 10:40:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E1851F7.6050801@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 15:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021211 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, RaoulGough@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: coffread.c extension for DLLs without debugging symbols References: <200301041641.h04Gft101583@duracef.shout.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-01/txt/msg00178.txt.bz2 > > "RFA" == "Request for Approval". > > GDB has a human approval system that goes beyond the CVS permissions. > You can read about it in the top level MAINTAINERS file. > > There are three levels of access. 'Blanket Maintainers' have the > authority to commit files anywhere in the gdb tree. Several types > of 'Maintainers' have authority to commit files in their area of > responsibility. 'Write After Approval' maintainers have the authority > to commit their patches if a Blanket Maintainer or a Maintainer approves > them. Almost. A so-called blanket write maintainer, can not commit without approval (except where pretty obvious or pre-negotiated) a change to something that has a more specific maintainer. Andrew