From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: drow@false.org, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: New MI maintainer
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080220190512.4550A8FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1JRknS-00068O-Ry@fencepost.gnu.org>
> If a company is willing to pay for work on MI, that is a good thing.
> I don't think we should treat that as something suspect.
That is surely a good thing, just as Red Hat paid for the initial development
of MI, but the circumstances are different here.
> However, it does sound like the SC should say something to Vladimir
> about the vital importance of backward compatibility and compatibility
> with other GNU packages.
Clearly Vladimir's appointment should be seen as an endorsement of his views.
You can't really expect checks and balances to be put in place.
Anyway, I should respect the decision of the global maintainers, although I
suspect most didn't have an opinion in the matter. It looks like I've been
outmanoeuvred and perhaps I shouldn't be such a sore loser. I guess it's
checkmate and game over.
--
Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-20 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-19 19:37 Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-19 20:29 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-19 20:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-19 20:47 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-21 1:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-02-20 3:12 ` Bob Rossi
2008-02-20 8:59 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-21 21:37 ` Bob Rossi
2008-02-20 19:05 ` Richard Stallman
2008-02-20 20:00 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-02-20 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-20 21:20 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-20 21:50 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-02-20 23:25 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-02-22 3:34 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-22 17:37 ` Thomas Dineen
2008-02-22 22:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-22 22:14 ` Christopher Faylor
2008-02-22 22:23 ` Bob Rossi
2008-02-23 0:01 ` Dave Korn
2008-02-23 0:58 ` Alpár Jüttner
2008-02-23 8:16 ` Jim Blandy
2008-02-23 11:13 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-23 11:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-23 12:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-02-22 23:36 ` Jim Blandy
2008-02-21 19:25 ` Stan Shebs
2008-02-22 4:08 ` Nick Roberts
2008-02-22 2:52 ` Bob Rossi
2008-02-22 8:43 ` Vladimir Prus
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