From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9902 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2008 20:46:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 9877 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Feb 2008 20:46:46 -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 20:46:20 +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 8EFD83DA02B; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:46:17 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8FDD58FC6D; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:46:04 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18363.16396.16628.619030@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:47:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Richard Stallman Subject: Re: New MI maintainer In-Reply-To: <20080219202853.GA14588@caradoc.them.org> References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080219202853.GA14588@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/msg00145.txt.bz2 > > 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. > > Yes. The global maintainers have been discussing the problem of MI > maintenance for at least that long. I was hoping to leave this out of > the announcement, but the consensus of that group was that you were > not a suitable choice for a GDB maintainer. Part of the delay was our > hope that the situation would improve. Apart from Eli's support I had no feedback from that offer so clearly I don't understand what that means. > > 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. > > I expect an apology from you for this offensive statement. I am the > only member of the GDB steering committee working at CodeSourcery, and > the SC is a group of GDB contributors, not some sort of sock puppet. > The decision was made solely based on the interests of GDB in our best > judgement. I don't want to escalate the invective but I don't really see why I should apologise for my perceptions. If, as you say, the decision was carefully discussed, it would not have escaped the global maintainers attention that I was interested in the role. Given that I have made significant contributions to GDB/MI over a long period of time then it would then seem appropriate to at least e-mail me off-list before the announcement to inform me of your intention. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob