From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2802 invoked by alias); 27 Mar 2004 01:10:24 -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 2772 invoked from network); 27 Mar 2004 01:10:23 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO yosemite.airs.com) (209.128.65.135) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Mar 2004 01:10:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 21611 invoked by uid 10); 27 Mar 2004 01:10:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 10773 invoked by uid 500); 27 Mar 2004 01:10:12 -0000 To: Robert Dewar Cc: Bob Rossi , gdbheads@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Gdbheads] A small patch case study, -file-list-exec-source-files References: <16456.65451.461753.66554@localhost.redhat.com> <20040306155700.GA9439@white> <20040311132508.GA2504@white> <20040323130900.GA17339@white> <40605C9F.2050700@gnat.com> <20040325043648.GA20454@white> <20040325055925.GS1104@gnat.com> <406279E4.3090903@gnat.com> <20040325124313.GA21101@white> <4062E6E1.2070605@gnat.com> <4062F5DA.10708@gnat.com> <4064C90C.8000206@gnat.com> From: Ian Lance Taylor Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2004 01:10:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <4064C90C.8000206@gnat.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00694.txt.bz2 Robert Dewar writes: > > I'll also add that being a GNU maintainer is an inherently political > > position. Technical skill is a big part of it, but it is not the only > > part. People with no political skills are risky choices as GNU > > maintainers. > > You don't really mean political skills, though I note the tendency > of technical people to divide all the world up into the technical > aznd political. Really what you mean is skill in dealing with other > people, and yes, of course this is most certainly true. Robert, you can put words in my mouth when dealing with technical matters, but please do not do it in other cases. I understand the distinction you are drawing, and I did mean to say "political skills." I won't respond to the rest of your comments, since I already said that I would try to stop talking about it. Ian