From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15654 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2005 22:41:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 15647 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Nov 2005 22:41:42 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:41:40 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EdEvK-0005jt-JV for gdb@sourceware.org; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 17:41:38 -0500 Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 22:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Message-ID: <20051118224138.GA21992@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20051118030711.GB31581@nevyn.them.org> <20051118152618.GB9100@nevyn.them.org> <20051118185135.GA13986@nevyn.them.org> <20051118214620.GA19194@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00412.txt.bz2 On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 12:33:38AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 16:46:20 -0500 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , gdb@sourceware.org > > > > Here's the counter question: if we force people to take the > > responsibility, why will they do a good job? > > I wasn't suggesting to force a responsibility. And we cannot enforce > it, anyway, under your suggestions, since being authorized means to > have the same rights with less duties. We all are busy people, so > it's quite possible we will wind up with several authorized > maintainers and no responsible maintainers. For that, all I have to offer you is that there's no way to end up as a global maintainer without accepting this responsibility. Of course it's diffused across the entire group of GMs, but that's always been the case. If in practice it turns out we don't have anyone in this slot, I don't think the system will fall apart; although I think it would be better for GDB if we did have some. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC