Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

Jim Blandy
2005-11-18T21:51:08Z

On 11/18/05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> In other words, if responsibility doesn't come with some unique
> authority, who will want such a responsibility?

People who take pleasure in being helpful to the project, and to Free
software. People who want to establish a name for themselves as a
reliable contributor. There are a lot of reasons people contribute to
Free software projects; I don't think the pursuit of authority is even
a particularly common motivation.

Not everyone finds authority to be a perk. I don't enjoy it at all.