Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:43:47 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > > Do you want to be the one to explain to all the latter group "no,
> > > sorry, we can't look at your patch for three weeks"?
> > 
> > I think there's a misunderstanding: 3 weeks was suggested as a
> > _timeout_, i.e. an extreme value beyond which we behave as if the
> > responsible maintainer were not there.  It is not suggested as the
> > _average_ value.  If, several months from now, we see that the average
> > delay is anywhere near 3 weeks, I will be the first one to suggest we
> > do something about it.
> 
> What are you suggesting doing with the current set of maintainers,
> then?  The fact remains that for most patch review, three weeks is
> currently optimistic.

If that is so, we will watch most of the current maintainers being
politely asked to step down.  When the last of them goes, you can then
have your suggested approval procedure, since most areas will be left
without RMs ;-)