From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10979 invoked by alias); 22 Feb 2008 17:24:48 -0000 Received: (qmail 10968 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Feb 2008 17:24:47 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (HELO elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net) (209.86.89.62) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:24:22 +0000 Received: from [67.164.81.10] (helo=ix.netcom.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1JSbdC-0001p0-17; Fri, 22 Feb 2008 12:24:18 -0500 Message-ID: <47BF0478.1050209@ix.netcom.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:37:00 -0000 From: Thomas Dineen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nick Roberts CC: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: New MI maintainer References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080220190512.4550A8FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18364.37907.135913.269853@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18366.14530.875406.113087@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> In-Reply-To: <18366.14530.875406.113087@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: 8fd196f32229d336776432462e451d7b7f19f0d9c038d9aaae84b7d31b36bfaf5a1de01aca0be3a6350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00188.txt.bz2 Gentle People: Yes but with the conditions listed below: "robustly constructed and justified" any contributor can easily be blown off for any political reason! From my observations the attitudes expressed in this thread are NOT positive for the Open Source Movement. I would suggest that your movement would benefit from more openness and democracy. Thomas Dineen Nick Roberts wrote: > > Please don't be disappointed by mere politics. If your technical > > contributions continue, and are robustly constructed and justified, > > any reasonable maintainer will have no choice but to go along. A > > powerful contributor can outproduce a maintainer, and in the end > > that's what matters. > >Thanks but I'm probably not really a powerful contributor. I just wanted to be >able to commit patches in a timely fashion and somehow thought if I put in the >hard yards that one day I would be able to do so. > > >