Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Eli Zaretskii
2005-11-17T20:16:02Z

> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 22:40:56 -0800
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@red-bean.com>
>
> I'm a bit concerned that one global maintainer can, by reverting a
> patch, demand to be persuaded, or have the issue kicked to the
> steering committee. If at least (say) four global maintainers comment
> on the patch and (say) 75% or more of those who comment feel the patch
> should go in, shouldn't that be enough to get it in?

We could restrict the revert rule to those cases where a patch was
committed that is not backed up by anyone except the person who
committed it.