From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7180 invoked by alias); 20 Nov 2005 22:01:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 7170 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Nov 2005 22:01:48 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:01:48 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1EdxFq-0000Zy-4n for gdb@sourceware.org; Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:01:46 -0500 Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 22:01:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Message-ID: <20051120220146.GA2192@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb@sourceware.org References: <20051119024455.GA6482@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20051119170458.GB7912@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20051119222130.GA13034@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <20051120052806.GY1635@adacore.com> <20051120215548.GA5563@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051120215548.GA5563@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-IsSubscribed: yes 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/msg00435.txt.bz2 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. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC