From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9055 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2002 18:23:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9021 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 18:22:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail-out2.apple.com) (17.254.0.51) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 18:22:59 -0000 Received: from mailgate1.apple.com (A17-128-100-225.apple.com [17.128.100.225]) by mail-out2.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9PIMwI10620 for ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:22:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scv1.apple.com (scv1.apple.com) by mailgate1.apple.com (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.5) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:22:44 -0700 Received: from apple.com (vpn-scv-x1-11.apple.com [17.219.193.11]) by scv1.apple.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9PIMvH19751; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:22:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DB98BBD.9020703@apple.com> Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 11:23:00 -0000 From: Stan Shebs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Cagney CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] New title for ``global write maintainer''? References: <3DB95391.10407@redhat.com> <3DB959C7.6050807@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 Andrew Cagney wrote: > > The current ``global write maintainer'' title is something of a > misnomer. Unlike GCC, where a global write maintainer can an does > approve any patch, the GDB global write maintainers have an > understanding that they won't approve patches or directly make changes > in areas where there is already a maintainer. > > Given the potential for confusion, I'm wondering anyone has a better > title? The only one I've come up with so far is ``Council of > Elders''(1) but apparently some countries don't treat their elders > with respect and, hence, the term takes on less than plesant > connitations :-( Another could be the Senate, .... "default maintainer"? "etc maintainer"? "all-that-other-code maintainer"? :-) Stan