From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24426 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2008 20:19:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 24415 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Feb 2008 20:19:29 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:19:04 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (165.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.165]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id F07003DA5BA; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:19:01 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0402B8FC6D; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:18:48 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:29:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Richard Stallman Subject: Re: New MI maintainer In-Reply-To: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.90.4 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 Daniel Jacobowitz writes: > I'm glad to announce that GDB finally has an official MI maintainer > again: Vladimir Prus. > > -- > Daniel Jacobowitz > CodeSourcery I must say I'm surprised by this appointment for several reasons. When I offered to act as maintainer, a year or so ago, although I had Eli's support and other's endorsed it off-list, e.g., Alain Magloire, my offer was declined. I've contributed to MI for six years now while Vladimir started under three years ago. There are many people on this list who I would say know more about Gdb than me, but Vladimir is not one of them. More importantly when I pointed out last year that his changes broke Emacs use of Gdb as it needs the CLI, his reply was: ...And probably the only way to change the situation is to decide that MI is the future, and actively discourage use of CLI for anything, to the degree of immediately refusing any request mentioning CLI in relation to any frontend. The process behind these decisions is not open to me but it doesn't escape my attention that Vladimir is now part of CodeSourcery, and that CodeSourcery have at least one contract (with Ericsson) to work on Eclipse which uses GDB/MI in its DSF plugin. I ask myself in whose interest this appointment is made. It's certainly not the GNU project or the FSF. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob > 2008-02-14 Daniel Jacobowitz > > * MAINTAINERS: Add Vladimir Prus as MI maintainer. > > Index: gdb/MAINTAINERS > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/MAINTAINERS,v > retrieving revision 1.388 > diff -u -p -r1.388 MAINTAINERS > --- gdb/MAINTAINERS 29 Jan 2008 19:15:36 -0000 1.388 > +++ gdb/MAINTAINERS 14 Feb 2008 16:34:14 -0000 > @@ -370,6 +370,7 @@ language support > C++ Daniel Jacobowitz dan@debian.org > Objective C support Adam Fedor fedor@gnu.org > shared libs Kevin Buettner kevinb@redhat.com > +MI interface Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com > > documentation Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org > (including NEWS)