From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2423 invoked by alias); 7 Feb 2006 19:01:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 2413 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Feb 2006 19:01:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.193) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:01:15 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so1377913nzd for ; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:01:14 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.36.251.46 with SMTP id y46mr4269683nzh; Tue, 07 Feb 2006 11:01:13 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.63 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Feb 2006 11:01:13 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0602071101t11fc941dqf840c6975b2c4cfd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 19:01:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS file updated with ping results In-Reply-To: <20060207154246.GA20262@nevyn.them.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060207154246.GA20262@nevyn.them.org> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-02/txt/msg00149.txt.bz2 If I'm reading the descriptions right, it's not meaningful to list someone as both a global maintainer and as an authorized committer; the former has the rights of the latter. But of the entries now in "Authorized Committers", many belong to people who are also global maintainers. To be clear: I think it's very important that people are given credit for their contributions; it's one of my primary motivations in working on Free software. So if people feel that having their names listed in both places is valuable in being recognized for their work, I don't object. My point is that, as far as our procedures are concerned, it seems redundant. So if the general sense is that the first purpose of gdb/MAINTAINERS is to describe our permissions and responsibilities, then it should be trimmed.