Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 21:18:02 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> I don't want to let the example of one person (AFAIK) affect the
> productivity of the rest.

I fail to see how asking for approval of a 2-liner, and a day or two
of delay waiting for responses, could possibly affect productivity.
For that matter, I don't see how changes in NEWS can affect
development in the first place.

> If you guys prefer to enforce RFAs, I won't in the least bit object.

I don't want to enforce RFAs, I'd like to see people do that out of
their free will.  Cooperation and comradeship cannot be enforced.

> Just as an aside, we at AdaCore use the review-after-commit approach.

There are many different modes of doing this.  Emacs, for example,
uses commit-at-will-without-any-review, and it works fairly well
(changes are almost never reverted).  But as long as we are following
the current GDB procedures and don't want to change them, we should
adhere to them, letter and spirit, because that's the only way of
restoring trust and good cooperative atmosphere.