From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2943 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2004 21:25:54 -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 2934 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2004 21:25:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hawaii.kealia.com) (209.3.10.89) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2004 21:25:53 -0000 Received: by hawaii.kealia.com (Postfix, from userid 2049) id 289B6C6D7; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:25:52 -0800 (PST) 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: <20040225040059.GB19094@white> <16456.65451.461753.66554@localhost.redhat.com> <20040306155700.GA9439@white> <20040311132508.GA2504@white> <20040323130900.GA17339@white> <40605C9F.2050700@gnat.com> From: David Carlton Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 21:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <40605C9F.2050700@gnat.com> (Robert Dewar's message of "Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:49:51 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion, linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00537.txt.bz2 On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 10:49:51 -0500, Robert Dewar said: > Now perhaps more people should have approval authority, but that of > course has its own draw backs in terms of keeping the entire project > under control. There is always a fundamental trade off between > reliability/stability/control and adding nice new features. This is perhaps obvious, but increasing the number of people who can approve patches can add to reliability just as easily as it can hurt reliability: they might be approving patches that fix bugs. It's not entirely clear to me that stability (which I'm reading as meaning lack of changes in the code itself) and control are inherently good things, for that matter. You can have too little or too much of either, and I would imagine that projects can be successful across a broad spectrum of stability and control. David Carlton carlton@kealia.com