Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Joel Brobecker
2005-11-24T20:47:32Z

> In a healthy society he who accepts a burden on behalf of others
> should be rewarded, even if the reward is not the most important
> reason to take the burden.

I agree, but the reward is not always where you think it is.
To me, the reward has been a good free debugger.

> Anyway, I think we made several circles around the issue, so further
> discussion won't bring any new arguments. 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.

I'm fine with this approach. I think it's the polite thing to do anyway.

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Joel