Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-27T19:18:31Z

> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>
> Date: 26 Nov 2005 20:59:40 -0800
>
> For comparison, a gcc patch which causes a testsuite or significant
> performance regression on a primary target may be reverted, if any two
> people with write privileges (i.e., not just maintainers, but also
> write-after-approval) agree, after waiting for 48 hours. In practice
> this is rarely actually done; the threat of it is normally enough to
> resolve the situation one way or another.

Thanks for the info.

However, our problem was what to do when a patch does not cause
failures in the testsuite, but still causes objections.