From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18516 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2008 20:57:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 18506 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2008 20:57:21 -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; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:56:56 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (98.62.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.62.98]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F62B3D9EE9; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:56:53 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C5FB18FC6D; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:56:51 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <18364.37907.135913.269853@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:20:00 -0000 To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: rms@gnu.org, drow@false.org, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: New MI maintainer In-Reply-To: References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080220190512.4550A8FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> 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/msg00154.txt.bz2 > > Clearly Vladimir's appointment should be seen as an endorsement of his > > views. > > No, it is not. GDB global maintainers are not appointed based on > their views, they are appointed based on their coding and social > skills. Unfortunately for you, your reaction to Vladimir's > appointment puts you farther from a similar appointment, not closer. Hopefully their views are taken into account. It doesn't sound like I was very close, in the first place. Having refused to revert changes that broke Emacs use of Gdb (albeit with "undocumented assumptions") for the last three months, I find it disingenuous for him to suddenly offer to fix parts now. I'm not optimistic about the future, when the heat has died down. >... > > and perhaps I shouldn't be such a sore loser. I guess it's > > checkmate and game over. > > You are not a loser, and this is not a game. This is not some kind of > final verdict in high court without right to appeal, either. If you > can accept friendly constructive criticism and change, there's no > reason not to invite you to become a global maintainer at some later > date; Thanks for your support but after six years of contributing and peer reviewing patches the thought that "if I keep trying, I too might one day become a maintainer" doesn't really excite me. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob