Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

Andrew Cagney
2003-02-20T01:27:35Z

> How is the 6 months inactivity period going to help? None of the
> current gdb maintainers perticipating in this discussion has ever
> disappeared for that long, really. If some person has disappeared
> from radar, like relocated, changed e-mail, etc, the person has been
> removed from the list. I can think of one such case.

There was one such case. There have also been two dummy spits; and,
after lobying, a number of people `stepping down'.

One thing I've noticed is that people struggle to appreciate the
difference between `no maintainer' and `inactive maintainer'. There is
a definite resistance to `letting go'.

Andrew