Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

Andrew Cagney
2003-02-21T23:43:34Z

> I was talking to a friend of mine about the way GDB is run, and he was
> amazed that we give individual people complete power, and complete
> responsibility, for sections of code. Everyone is going to be wrong
> sometimes, he said, and it's easy to protect against, without being
> too bureaucratic.

Interesting spin.

I think the concept such as `the Buck stops' and having the final
decision, are very different to `complete power'. The former is about
responsibility.

A maintainer, who is a member of a larger team, takes on certain
responsibilities, such making the final decision when reviewing a patch.
The maintainer is assumed to have sufficiently good judgment, however,
they are also assumed to be taking on board the comments and suggestions
being made by their peers.

Andrew