From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16663 invoked by alias); 20 Feb 2008 21:50:15 -0000 Received: (qmail 16655 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Feb 2008 21:50:15 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:49:58 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m1KLilDK002705; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:44:47 -0500 Received: from pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (pobox-3.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.67]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1KLikIZ026337; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:44:46 -0500 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.9]) by pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1KLiKLi021548; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:44:46 -0500 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF468001FF; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:44:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m1KLhkHC002061; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:43:46 -0500 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m1KLhjPL002060; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 16:43:45 -0500 To: Nick Roberts Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: New MI maintainer References: <20080219191222.GA10196@caradoc.them.org> <18363.14758.855327.355215@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080220190512.4550A8FC6D@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <18364.37907.135913.269853@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 23:25:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <18364.37907.135913.269853@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:56:51 +1300") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-02/txt/msg00156.txt.bz2 Nick Roberts writes: > [...] Thanks for your support but after six years of contributing > and peer reviewing patches the thought that "if I keep trying, I too > might one day become a maintainer" doesn't really excite me. Please don't be disappointed by mere politics. If your technical contributions continue, and are robustly constructed and justified, any reasonable maintainer will have no choice but to go along. A powerful contributor can outproduce a maintainer, and in the end that's what matters. - FChE