From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Berlin To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Daniel Berlin , Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Rewriting the type system Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:12:00 -0000 Message-id: <87k82hisn2.fsf@cgsoftware.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-06/msg00231.html Eli Zaretskii writes: > On 11 Jun 2001, Daniel Berlin wrote: > >> Even the very simple patch to add the misc obstack to the objfiles, >> and stop putting things in the psymbol obstack that don't belong, from >> May 29th, hasn't been reviewed yet. >> Hell, the simple bcache change i submitted last year (updating the >> starting constant, fix the indenting) still hasn't >> been reviewed. >> >> Jim, GDB development is moving a lot slower than it should. > > My experience is very different. Every change that I suggested until > now, for the past 2 years or so that I'm involved with GDB > maintenance, was usually reviewed within 1-2 weeks of my posting it > as an RFA. A few times I needed to post a reminder (I usually do that > after more than a week's passed without any replies). A couple of > times, I needed more than one reminder, but that's an exception rather > than the rule, in my experience. This is because you work on different parts of GDB then I do. As I just pointed out to Stan, i'm not alone. I received 4 replies to the message I posted saying "I know exactly how you feel" or "Your not kidding". These are people who no longer contribute to GDB, saying they are waiting for a time when they can get, for instance, a simple Makefile.in patch, reviewed within 3 months. That's sad. > > In most cases, I had my patches reviewed and approved in 2-3 weeks, > sometimes a month. In one exceptional case, it took 3 or 4 months, > but that was my first large submission, and I failed to ping the > relevant maintainer more than once. > > So GDB development is not slow, in my opinion. More importantly, I'm > always able to get my patches accepted by using the normal channels, > such as pinging people from time to time. > > In other words, the development procedures work. Maybe for your area of GDB. Not for mine. And apparently, not for some others. Do you really think i'd complain if I was alone here? If I thought it was just me? -- "The other day, I was walking my dog around my building... on the ledge. Some people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths. "-Steven Wright