From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27621 invoked by alias); 25 Oct 2002 21:35:09 -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 27462 invoked from network); 25 Oct 2002 21:35:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mail.cdt.org) (206.112.85.61) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 25 Oct 2002 21:35:07 -0000 Received: from dberlin.org (pool-138-88-140-8.esr.east.verizon.net [138.88.140.8]) by mail.cdt.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5C24900DC; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:09:33 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.91] (account dberlin HELO dberlin.org) by dberlin.org (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0) with ESMTP-TLS id 1131481; Fri, 25 Oct 2002 17:35:05 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 14:35:00 -0000 Subject: Re: [maint] New title for ``global write maintainer''? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v546) Cc: Andrew Cagney , gdb@sources.redhat.com To: Stan Shebs From: Daniel Berlin In-Reply-To: <3DB98BBD.9020703@apple.com> Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-10/txt/msg00188.txt.bz2 On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 02:21 PM, Stan Shebs wrote: > 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"? :-) > How bout "suckers"? :) > Stan > > >