Re: New MI maintainer

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Alp=E1r_J=FCttner?= <alpar@cs.elte.hu>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 01:01:16 +0100
> 
> I think, the real issue is not the openness of the project management,
> but this:
> 
> > Given that I have made significant contributions
> > to GDB/MI over a long period of time then it would then seem appropriate to at
> > least e-mail me off-list before the announcement to inform me of your
> > intention.
> 
> As far as I see, nobody has commented on this sentence of Nick.

Actually, that's not true.  Daniel did respond:

> > Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 20:41:47 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: gdb@sourceware.org, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> > 
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:46:04AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > > was interested in the role.  Given that I have made significant contributions
> > > to GDB/MI over a long period of time then it would then seem appropriate to at
> > > least e-mail me off-list before the announcement to inform me of your
> > > intention.
> > 
> > Yes.  I didn't handle the announcement well, and I should have avoided
> > the (untrue) appearance of conflict of interest by asking someone else
> > to make the announcement.

I think that's an appropriate response.

> Some people expected an apology in this thread but nobody seemed to be
> thinking about whether he should apologize. More than one person made a
> mistake in this awkward story. I strongly believe that a frank 'sorry'
> from the one who made the first one would be followed by others.

I think the above comes as close to "sorry" as one can expect in such
situations.