Re: [maint] The GDB maintenance process

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 10:47:46AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> 
> >With my modest experience on the GDB project, and without any experience
> >on any other GNU project like this, it's difficult to make any
> >recommendation. My feeling is that we could try relaxing a bit the
> >rules, and allow global maintainers to approves changes if the
> >associated maintainer is unable to review them in say, a few (couple?)
> >of weeks.
> 
> Fernando does this already.  He also sends out e-mail saying he is off 
> line for a bit (he is down the hall from me which is an advantage). 
> Other maintainers do not, sigh!  More of a concern is that repeated 
> pings often result in radio silence.

Yes, Fernando does this.  He also tends to disappear for long periods
of time without doing it.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer