Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-25T08:36:14Z

> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 00:28:10 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>
>
> How about a month for the timeout period? That won't accommodate a long
> vacation but it should be enough for most scenarios.
>
> Would adding a rider that says "Two global maintainers can agree to
> apply the patch after two weeks of nonresponse" complicate things too
> much? I would hate for an important patch to languish just because
> someone was on vacation.

How about if we start from something simple, like 3 weeks of timeout
and no other conditions? Then, a year or so from now, we could
analyze the results and see if we need to augment the rules.