Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals

[Joel Brobecker]

> 1) Global maintainers are permitted to approve patches to any part of
>    gdb, even parts which have a specific area maintainer.

Yes.

> 2) If maintainers disagree on a patch, and can not resolve the
>    disagreement by discussion, the disagreement may be resolved by a
>    vote of all global maintainers and relevant area maintainers.

Abstain... Or rather: No (a weak no).

> 3) Assign more area maintainers to areas for which patches are not
>    being reviewed fast enough.

Yes (more area maintainers can not be a bad thing, can it?)

> 4) Track patches using an automated system; permit global maintainers
>    to approve a patch if the relevant area maintainers have not acted
>    for N days, for some value of N.

Yes.

As an aside, I am only interested in the part of this proposal that
allows the maintainers to approve patches. I'm not sure it's that
important or even productive to trigger some automatic alarms should a
patch not be reviewed. I would expect friendly reminders from the patch
authors to be sufficient.

> 5) Create an ombudsman for gdb, who is responsible for listening to
>    people's reports of problems, and then resolving them first through
>    the global maintainers, and then, if that fails, through the
>    steering committee.

No. I would give that responsibility to the SC.

> 6) Reconstitute the steering committee to make it more active and to
>    make it better reflect the gdb community.  Include people from the
>    gcc and binutils projects.  Perhaps do not include current gdb
>    maintainers, to permit more objectivity.

Yes.

-- 
Joel