Re: [commit] Add add_setshow_enum_cmd, use in mips

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2004 17:37:16 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: cagney@gnu.org, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> I only see a point for maintainers to post RFAs when (A) they can
> not approve the patch themselves or (B) they are not
> confident/happy/sure with the approach.

I'm astonished: you are, in effect, saying that the patch review
process exists only because some meaningless bureaucratic rule does
not permit a single person to do whatever he/she wants.  I kinda
thought that the patch review is the default, except when the patch
comes from an expert whom we trust to be good enough not to need that.

> We don't operate on consensus

I thought we should.  If not, I don't see much sense in the machinery
that we have in place.  To me, the reason for our procedures is to
produce quality code, not just to make an impression of due process.