Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19T22:53:43Z

> Has anyone taken the time to go through the list of outstanding patches
> and categorize them by maintainership?

Already done, see the bug database. Mind you only very recently but I
think we're already seeing results.

> I'm wondering if this is just a problem with a couple of maintainers
> being unresponsive.
>
> For instance, as a not-so-wild guess, I'd say that the symtab part of
> gdb frequently falls behind. That may be because there are more
> symtab-related patches being supplied or it could be that I'm just
> imagining things.

There are more symtab patches but, thanks to one maintainer, they are
moving. Not sure about other categories, some do appear stalled :-(

> If there are some maintainers who just aren't responsive enough, for
> whatever reason, then the simple expedient of adding another maintainer
> for that specific part of gdb might go a long way towards fixing the
> backlog.

There is responsive and then there is reliable :-/

Andrew