From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 20110 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2003 16:29:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 20103 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2003 16:29:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO crack.them.org) (65.125.64.184) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 19 Feb 2003 16:29:18 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18lYz8-0006bR-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 12:30:22 -0600 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 18lX5w-0001tb-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 11:29:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process Message-ID: <20030219162916.GA7191@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <20030218042847.50F2E3CE5@localhost.redhat.com> <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <20030218023553.2BBB73D02@localhost.redhat.com> <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> <15953.20132.193102.752916@localhost.redhat.com> <20030219014904.GA11446@nevyn.them.org> <20030219022636.GJ2105@gnat.com> <3E53A722.2030801@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E53A722.2030801@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00352.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote: > > >With my modest experience on the GDB project, and without any experience > >on any other GNU project like this, it's difficult to make any > >recommendation. My feeling is that we could try relaxing a bit the > >rules, and allow global maintainers to approves changes if the > >associated maintainer is unable to review them in say, a few (couple?) > >of weeks. > > Fernando does this already. He also sends out e-mail saying he is off > line for a bit (he is down the hall from me which is an advantage). > Other maintainers do not, sigh! More of a concern is that repeated > pings often result in radio silence. Yes, Fernando does this. He also tends to disappear for long periods of time without doing it. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer