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Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals
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Corinna Vinschen |
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Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals |
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Tue, 3 Feb 2004 13:19:47 +0100 |
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On Feb 3 01:02, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> Here are the proposals, in the order in which I found them by reading
> the discussions with a threaded e-mail reader:
>
> 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.
Yes. Additionally a quick vote could help to push forward dangling design
discussions on the gdb list, if necessary.
> 3) Assign more area maintainers to areas for which patches are not
> being reviewed fast enough.
Yes.
> 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.
No.
> 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.
> 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, but the SC should be only a last resort in really tricky cases.
Corinna
- [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Kevin Buettner, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Joel Brobecker, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals,
Corinna Vinschen <=
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, David Carlton, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Michael Snyder, 2004/02/03
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/02/04
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/04
- Re: [Gdbheads] Proposed poll on proposals, David Carlton, 2004/02/10
- [Gdbheads] Moving forward, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/02/14
- Re: [Gdbheads] Moving forward, Andrew Cagney, 2004/02/14
- Re: [Gdbheads] Moving forward, Ian Lance Taylor, 2004/02/14
- Re: [Gdbheads] Moving forward, Andrew Cagney, 2004/02/14
- Re: [Gdbheads] Moving forward, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/17