Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>]

> On Feb 19,  9:33am, David Carlton wrote:
>
>
> > On Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:54:50 -0500, Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com> said:
>
> > > One thing GCC(4) and GDB are now is encouraging exprementation on
> > > branches development to always occure on branches cut from the the
> > > relevant repository.
>
> > Would Red Hat be happy hosting significant branches for other
> > companies?

FYI, it isn't a Red Hat decision.

> I assume you're referring to the sources.redhat.com repository, right?
>
> I think the answer is "yes", so long as the branch in question is
> intended to (eventually) further mainline gdb development.  If the
> branch is just some custom bit of work that is likely to never make
> it to the mainline, probably not.

And that decision is up to this group.

> > Would those other companies be happy depending on Red
> > Hat's CVS servers?

Should money making corporate types be willing to bet the crown jewls on 
those same resources (sware, subversion, sourceforge)?  Interesting 
question.

Red Hat makes sourceware available as a public service.  It funds it 
rather than owns it.  The machine is adminstered by a group of overseers 
(chrisf and jasonm are two).

Andrew