From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9866 invoked by alias); 18 Nov 2005 21:51:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 9858 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Nov 2005 21:51:04 -0000 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (HELO zproxy.gmail.com) (64.233.162.202) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:51:04 +0000 Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id x3so291504nzd for ; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.20.27 with SMTP id x27mr210618nzi; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:51:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.37.2.35 with HTTP; Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:51:01 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8f2776cb0511181351k6aba28f7m5223956e4f84f46@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 21:51:00 -0000 From: Jim Blandy To: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , gdb@sourceware.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051117140353.GA11432@nevyn.them.org> <8f2776cb0511162240q6f550008udda9803b5253fd88@mail.gmail.com> <20051118030711.GB31581@nevyn.them.org> <20051118152618.GB9100@nevyn.them.org> <20051118185135.GA13986@nevyn.them.org> Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00408.txt.bz2 On 11/18/05, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > In other words, if responsibility doesn't come with some unique > authority, who will want such a responsibility? People who take pleasure in being helpful to the project, and to Free software. People who want to establish a name for themselves as a reliable contributor. There are a lot of reasons people contribute to Free software projects; I don't think the pursuit of authority is even a particularly common motivation. Not everyone finds authority to be a perk. I don't enjoy it at all.