Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[Richard Stallman]

    There was a time during the transition between Stan Shebs' regency
    and the current arrangement, when RMS (so I hear) insisted that gdb
    had only one maintainer, and that the rest of us were all just some
    kind of 'helpers'.

I think that is partly true and partly garbled.  Every GNU package has
an official maintainer or maintainers, who are appointed to take
charge of it; but there can be more than one maintainer.  In the case
of GDB, there are nine official maintainers.



 report, because in fact I appointed the
current steering committee of nine people as co-maintainers.

However, if some of them are no longer interested in carrying out
this responsibility, we should perhaps bring in some new blood.