Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

Andrew Cagney
2003-02-21T23:57:44Z

> When I was maintaining Guile, I ended up replacing my dictatorship
> with a group of four maintainers --- Mikael Djurfeldt, Maciej
> Stachowiak, and Marius Vollmer. Any one of those guys I trusted as
> much as I trust myself. There was no risk in making them my peers,
> since I was just as likely to make a poor decision as they were (if
> not more so), and if they didn't like something, it would certainly
> benefit from a re-examination. Surely we have people in the GDB
> community in addition to Andrew who have earned that level of trust.

The global write maintainers already have this responsability. Every so
often there needs to be a `judgment call'(1) which falls to the gdb head
(again `the buck stops'). On the whole, though, the group should be
discusses technical issues selecting designs based solely on their
relative merits.

One thing I do do though, is nip debates that are re-flogging head
issues, in the bud. Proposals for making GDB LGPL, for instance.

Andrew

(1) The last one I remember making was adopting gdb/cli/cli-*.[hc] for
cli file names and for that one I tossed a coin.