Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:03:40 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> I really think that at most we need a set of guidelines; not a set
> of spelt out rules.

What would be those guidelines, specifically?  I presume, if we go
that way, those guidelines do need to be spelled out somewhere, yes?

In any case, it would seem to me that we've already been there in this
discussion: the idea that being nice and cooperative will solve the
problems.  At least some of us don't believe that this method is good
enough in practice.

> Yes we had problems in the recent past with a particular maintainer.
> But I still think the other maintainers (including myself) are partly
> to blame for that situation.

Acknowledging the blame is important, but it does not in itself
produce a promise that this won't happen again.

> Trust between maintainers was broken, but you're not going to
> restore that trust by formulating some strict rules.

I think following rules is a good way of restoring trust.  What would
you suggest in its stead?  (We've discussed this issue as well, so you
may wish to re-read those parts of the thread.)