Re: maintainership

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>]

Jim,

There are several things I've in mind for maintainership.

First is to water down the requirements for targets that don't have a 
maintainer.  For instance, the HP platform.  While no one is probably up 
for being its maintainer (there is soooo much work to do on it) I think 
anyone listed in the MAINTAINERS file should be given a fairly free hand 
to making changes to it.  After all if someone notices it doesn't work 
they should be free to patch it up so that it kind of works.

The same can be applied to targets that do have maintainers but the 
maintainer is clearly inactive (typically they are overloaded).

The other is with much of the core stuff.  There are vast chunks of it 
that really don't need a maintainer - any change will either be obvious 
or will require consensus from a number of people.

Andrew