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Re: Maintainer policy for GDB
> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 19:03:05 -0500
> From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
>
> How about if an area maintainer hasn't responded, in some way, to
> email within a week, the patch is open for a general maintainer to
> apply?
I'm okay with this, assuming that ``some response'' could be as simple
as ``RFA acknowledged, will review it in a week or so''.
> Isn't it reasonable to assume that an area maintainer should be reading
> gdb-patches on at least a weekly frequency, assuming that they are not
> out-of-town?
It's reasonable.
> I guess you could complicate this with more rules about what to do when
> a maintainer responds but doesn't deliver but I don't think we need to
> go there for now.
No, we don't need to go there before we see this actually happening.