From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 23823 invoked by alias); 21 Feb 2003 23:57:44 -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 23816 invoked from network); 21 Feb 2003 23:57:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (172.16.49.200) by 172.16.49.205 with SMTP; 21 Feb 2003 23:57:44 -0000 Received: from redhat.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 518002EF9; Fri, 21 Feb 2003 19:02:21 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3E56BE0D.1000102@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:57:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Blandy Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process References: <20030217180709.GA19866@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2003-02/txt/msg00490.txt.bz2 > 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.