Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19T15:43:00Z

> 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.

I don't think having a global maintainer step in after N weeks will
really help. It just butters over what may be a more serious underlying
problem.

Andrew