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Re: [commit] Mention VAX floating-point support in NEWS
> Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 15:56:28 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2005 at 09:54:17PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Tue, 1 Nov 2005 08:31:28 +0100 (CET)
> > > From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> > >
> > > Thought this was worth mentioning.
> >
> > It is, IMO.
> >
> > > Committed,
> >
> > Whatever happened to the custom to ask whether there are any
> > objections, or even (gasp!) make it an RFA? NEWS is not one of the
> > files for which you are the responsible maintainer, and neither is
> > this change obvious, IMHO.
>
> >From gdb/MAINTAINERS:
>
> NEWS ALL
I don't know what this means, exactly (and MAINTAINERS doesn't
explain). The practice until now was that changes to NEWS _were_
discussed.
Anyway, I think, after what's happened lately, we should try to err on
the side of more cooperation and collective decisions, not less.
> In any case, I don't see why additions to NEWS should require any more
> approval than the feature they're describing. Why isn't it obvious?
It's not obvious because not every change we make goes into NEWS.