From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30514 invoked by alias); 19 Feb 2008 20:29:17 -0000 Received: (qmail 30492 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Feb 2008 20:29:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:56 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 620AC9802C; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 397519802B; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:28:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JRZ5B-0003qv-78; Tue, 19 Feb 2008 15:28:53 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 20:46:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Richard Stallman Subject: Re: New MI maintainer Message-ID: <20080219202853.GA14588@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , gdb@sourceware.org, Richard Stallman References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00144.txt.bz2 On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:18:46AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote: > I must say I'm surprised by this appointment for several reasons. When I > offered to act as maintainer, a year or so ago, although I had Eli's > support and other's endorsed it off-list, e.g., Alain Magloire, my offer > was declined. Yes. The global maintainers have been discussing the problem of MI maintenance for at least that long. I was hoping to leave this out of the announcement, but the consensus of that group was that you were not a suitable choice for a GDB maintainer. Part of the delay was our hope that the situation would improve. > The process behind these decisions is not open to me but it doesn't escape my > attention that Vladimir is now part of CodeSourcery, and that CodeSourcery have > at least one contract (with Ericsson) to work on Eclipse which uses GDB/MI in > its DSF plugin. I ask myself in whose interest this appointment is made. It's > certainly not the GNU project or the FSF. I expect an apology from you for this offensive statement. I am the only member of the GDB steering committee working at CodeSourcery, and the SC is a group of GDB contributors, not some sort of sock puppet. The decision was made solely based on the interests of GDB in our best judgement. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery