From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9313 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2008 19:05:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 9303 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2008 19:05:43 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:05:16 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (26.31.255.123.static.snap.net.nz [123.255.31.26]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 808F83DA728; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:05:13 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4550A8FC6D; Thu, 21 Feb 2008 08:05:12 +1300 (NZDT) From: Nick Roberts To: rms@gnu.org Cc: drow@false.org, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: New MI maintainer In-Reply-To: References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.90.4 Message-Id: <20080220190512.4550A8FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:00:00 -0000 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/msg00152.txt.bz2 > 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