From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) To: DJ Delorie Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Write after approval additions Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2001 12:35:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <3A817ED7.60A7B32C@cygnus.com> <3A81AC7D.22AC2232@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-02/msg00159.html DJ Delorie writes: : [...] : There was *no* list of write-after-approval people for binutils. All : I had to go on was the cvs permissions list and a long history of : random people checking things in all over the place. [...] Right, but if you need to police CVS commits after the fact, then you have the same problem. In other words, the effects of write-after-approval in the binutils vs gdb senses are hard to distinguish: if someone checks in approved patches, there is no problem in either case; if someone checks in unapproved patches, the same badness occurs in both cases. : > In what way is it a *useful* middle point between maintainers and : > ordinary contributors? : [...] Sorry, I meant to wonder aloud about the spectrum between maintainers and those potential contributors who already have CVS access, but are not on the GDB list, or equivalently, between the gdb vs binutils senses. - FChE