Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations

[Robert Dewar]

Benjamin Kosnik wrote:
> > > IMVHO, we should try to exclude active GDB maintainers from the
> > > committee.  Given the fallout from the incident(s) that led to these
> > > discussions, I think the committee's membership should be as remote
> > > as possible from any doubts regarding their objectivity; including
> > > people some of whom were involved in the kind of personal conflicts
> > > that led to this would go against that, IMHO.
> >
> > I see where you are coming from, but I think that the steering
> > committee does need to have some people paying close attention to the
> > direction that the gdb source code is taking.  I think it would be
> > hard to do that with no regular gdb maintainers at all.
>
>
> I agree. I think gdb maintainers should be allowed on the GDB steering
> committee.
>
>
> > I admit that I don't know how to reconcile the two positions.

I would say that an obvious way to reconcile the two positions is
to have some members but nowhere near all, be active GDB maintainers.
That dynamic should work fine and satisfy both constraints.