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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS
Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 04:32:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uirvb8yhh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051101205628.GA4668@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:56:28 -0500)

> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:56:28 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:54:17PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:31:28 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> > > 
> > > Thought this was worth mentioning.
> > 
> > It is, IMO.
> > 
> > > Committed,
> > 
> > Whatever happened to the custom to ask whether there are any
> > objections, or even (gasp!) make it an RFA?  NEWS is not one of the
> > files for which you are the responsible maintainer, and neither is
> > this change obvious, IMHO.
> 
> >From gdb/MAINTAINERS:
> 
> NEWS                    ALL

I don't know what this means, exactly (and MAINTAINERS doesn't
explain).  The practice until now was that changes to NEWS _were_
discussed.

Anyway, I think, after what's happened lately, we should try to err on
the side of more cooperation and collective decisions, not less.

> In any case, I don't see why additions to NEWS should require any more
> approval than the feature they're describing.  Why isn't it obvious?

It's not obvious because not every change we make goes into NEWS.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-11-02  4:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-11-01  7:31 Mark Kettenis
2005-11-01 19:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-01 20:56   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-02  4:32     ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2005-11-01 21:22   ` Mark Kettenis
2005-11-02  4:40     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-01 23:00   ` Joel Brobecker
2005-11-02  5:18     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-02  5:55       ` Joel Brobecker
2005-11-02 20:34         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-02 23:00           ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-02 23:04             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-03  1:34               ` Jim Blandy
2005-11-03  6:58               ` Eli Zaretskii

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