Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Paul Gilliam
2005-11-18T21:02:45Z

On Friday 18 November 2005 10:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Gilliam <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:56:14 -0800
> > Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, cagney@gnu.org,
> > jtc@acorntoolworks.com, fnf@ninemoons.com,
> > Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, ezannoni@redhat.com
> >
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 04:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:10:20 -0800
> > > > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > > >
> > > > About the voting system: I would also prefer to avoid this. The history
> > > > of the GDB maintenance community since I joined shows that we're able
> > > > to work together without unsolvable disagreements.
> > >
> > > How far into the past does your history go? I've seen unsolvable
> > > disagreements less than a year ago.
> >
> > Do you have a URL into the mailing list archive?
>
> I started to look for it, but then I read your other comments and
> realized that you were mocking me. So I won't bother looking for the

Please forgive me if I gave the impression I was mocking you! That was far from my intention!
I just wanted to be able to take a look at the situation to which you where refering.

> relevant messages. Some of them were in private mail, so there's no
> URLs anyway.
>
> But reality doesn't change if there's no URL to show as evidence. If
> you don't believe me that these things happened, ask others here, they
> will tell you.

I was not calling your veracity into question, I just don't remember. Sometimes I get so focused
on the current thing, I tend to tune-out what doesn't directly apply to it.

>
> > Is there a technological solution to this problem? Something that could
> > tell if a person were NOT subscribed to the list and send the mail directly?
>
> I don't know of any technological solution, except to configure the
> list server to filter addresses in order to prevent multiple messages.
> Most mailing lists don't do that, and FWIW I'm used to have double
> messages, they don't annoy me.

Me too. It took awhile to get used to, though.

> That's why I cannot understand why
> people bother to use Mail-Followup-To. IMHO it causes more trouble
> than it's worth.
>
>

PS: You have contributed so much to GDB that only a jerk would be less than polite to you.