Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 13:51:35 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> Eli, if this helps, here's another sort of example: someone who has
> done a lot of work in an area, and who we trust to make changes to that
> area without review, might be listed as "authorized to commit".  But
> that person may either be uninterested in reviewing other people's
> changes (unfortunate; I'm not sure how I'd feel about this case in
> practice), not very good at reviewing other people's changes, or simply
> always too busy to review other people's changes.  So listing them as
> the responsible maintainer would do a disservice to the rest of the
> community.

I'm worried that people might not want to take the responsibility upon
them if others, who don't share the responsibility, are allowed to
commit changes nonetheless.

In other words, if responsibility doesn't come with some unique
authority, who will want such a responsibility?