Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-11-20T22:01:49Z

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 04:55:48PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:22:33PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >>Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:28:06 -0800
> >>From: Joel Brobecker
> >>
> >>> Well, if a large fraction of subscribers don't get this header, it's
> >>> not very useful.
> >>
> >>I actually find this feature anti-productive for messages addressed
> >>to me. Keep me in the list of recipients when you answer a message
> >>from me, please!
> >
> >Sigh... it seems there's no way to keep everybody happy wrt this.
>
> Yeah. I guess different people use mailing lists in different ways but
> it surely seems like the lowest common denominator of just sending a
> message to the list should be adequate for any maintainer and especially
> for a GDB Release Manager.

Can we please continue this fascinating discussion of mailing list
etiquette in a separate thread, preferably without the sniping?

He didn't say he didn't read the list, merely that he found being CC'd
an effective way to get his attention.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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