Re: [Gdbheads] A small patch case study, -file-list-exec-source-files

David Carlton
2004-03-23T21:25:54Z

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:49:51 -0500, Robert Dewar <dewar@gnat.com> said:

> Now perhaps more people should have approval authority, but that of
> course has its own draw backs in terms of keeping the entire project
> under control. There is always a fundamental trade off between
> reliability/stability/control and adding nice new features.

This is perhaps obvious, but increasing the number of people who can
approve patches can add to reliability just as easily as it can hurt
reliability: they might be approving patches that fix bugs.

It's not entirely clear to me that stability (which I'm reading as
meaning lack of changes in the code itself) and control are inherently
good things, for that matter. You can have too little or too much of
either, and I would imagine that projects can be successful across a
broad spectrum of stability and control.

David Carlton
carlton@kealia.com