Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-25T03:06:12Z

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 10:36:44PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Anyway, I think we made several circles around the issue, so further
> discussion won't bring any new arguments.

I agree.

> There's Daniel's
> suggestion, and there's another one, supported by myself and I think
> Chris, which is to allow authorized maintainers other than the RM to
> kick in only after a timeout of N days. If no one objects to the
> latter method too much, then we could make everybody happy; if not,
> then, well, it won't be the first time I get voted down here...

What do you consider a reasonable value for N?

I'm somewhat worried about the timeout causing friction whenever it is
used; but we can give it a try and see what results we reach.

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