From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32361 invoked by alias); 23 Nov 2005 19:56:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 32164 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Nov 2005 19:56:03 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nile.gnat.com (HELO nile.gnat.com) (205.232.38.5) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 19:56:02 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FA9E48CFBC; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:56:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from nile.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (nile.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26892-01-2; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:56:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from takamaka.act-europe.fr (s142-179-108-108.bc.hsia.telus.net [142.179.108.108]) by nile.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C0FB48CDA5; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:56:00 -0500 (EST) Received: by takamaka.act-europe.fr (Postfix, from userid 507) id D041247E79; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:55:58 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 20:13:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: David Carlton , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Message-ID: <20051123195558.GZ1635@adacore.com> References: <20051118152618.GB9100@nevyn.them.org> <20051118185135.GA13986@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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/msg00532.txt.bz2 > My reservations about responsibilities without an authority is not > theoretical, I believe that the proposal was to give authority without responsibility. If I understand your point well, you are asking whether we will have people who will accept the responsibility, since they could simply earn authority and not bind themselves with responsibility. This is indeed an interesting question where you have to believe that people will be willing to donate a bit of their time to help the project. It's not completely altruistic. The reason I'm working with free software is that it's given me so much over the past 10 years. So contributing back is one way of working for me myself and I. I would gladly take some responsibility (and hopefully will on the ada-* code one day) if I had enough knowledge to do so. Take the release management role: It doesn't give me any authority nor power. I just donate a bit of my time to create releases when the group think is best. If tomorrow the maintainers send a message and say: let's create a new release, I'll just do it. I accepted the responsibility of doing this job without any added authority. -- Joel