From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31669 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2005 02:09:11 -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 31386 invoked from network); 17 Apr 2005 02:08:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 17 Apr 2005 02:08:59 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.50 #1 (Debian)) id 1DMzDW-0004MK-89; Sat, 16 Apr 2005 22:08:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 02:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: MI Maintanance Message-ID: <20050417020858.GA16694@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <16993.34163.414589.888781@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16993.34163.414589.888781@farnswood.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00111.txt.bz2 On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 09:36:51AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote: > > I don't pretend to know what is happening but I imagine some people are pretty > pissed off. I don't want to detract from Andrew's considerable contribution > in the past, but one monosyllabic Spanish word in two months doesn't seem > adequate to ensure continued MI Maintanance. > > Focussing on the practical, is it possible to find new maintainers for this > aspect of GDB? While I am fairly confident that my patches for MI won't harm > or break GDB, I don't have the depth of knowledge of GDB yet, to review other > peoples' patches. Given the new impetus that Apple have shown for GDB and > that they clearly have the expertise, I wonder if they are willing to pick up > the baton? Andrew, Elena, and Fernando stepped back from maintenance of MI. That means the obligation to review patches falls to the global maintainers. No one has had time to pick up the slack yet, but I assure you that we will. I haven't had a free hour in weeks except for the one I spent reviewing Paul's testsuite patches. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC