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Re: Machine maintainer veto.


On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 11:51:55PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> Community,
> 
> I have attempted to clarify what has always been in effect.
> The machine maintainers have some level of veto for what goes
> into their machine port. This allows some amount of control over
> hardware support and ABI/API additions and removals.
> 
> The key issue is to balance the project goals and the needs of
> the users of the particular machine. To do that effectively the
> machine maintainers have to have some level of veto to add or
> remove things to the machine they know and understand best.
> 
> https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/MAINTAINERS#Machine_maintainers

I know I don't have any standing to change it, but I just want to
express a sentiment that I think this is bad policy. I can go into the
details of why if anyone is interested.

Rich


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