From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32240 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2003 22:34:28 -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 32232 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2003 22:34:27 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (207.219.125.105) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Mar 2003 22:34:27 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38DDB2B11; Fri, 21 Mar 2003 17:34:23 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E7B936F.6050209@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:34:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030223 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Carlton Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Stepping down from several maintainership roles References: <3E75E30D.90803@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-03/txt/msg00457.txt.bz2 David, An inactive maintainer, at some point, be it 6 months, or even two years of inactivity, needs recognize that they are no longer participating in GDB's day-to-day development and as such should probably step back from their maintenance roles. If doing this means that the role becomes vacant then that is a good thing. This is because having no maintainer removes any possible perception that the code is, in even the smallest way, being developed or maintained (c.f., java). With this in mind I'll, from time to time, ping GDB maintainers and ask them to review their current level of commitment to both GDB and the FSF, and consider droping an area of maintenance responsibility. Overall, I receive a very positive response to such requests. I personally appreciate such a level of professionalism, simply acknowledging this can be both difficult and painful. No one has been `pressured into severing ties outright'. Andrew