Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[David Carlton]

On 28 Jan 2004 16:03:57 -0500, Ian Lance Taylor <address@hidden> said:

> I'm not a gdb maintainer, but I do have a comment.  I don't think
> voting is a particularly good approach for maintaining a GNU
> program.

Do you have examples of other projects that have used voting?  I'd be
curious to hear what problems others have encountered, so we can try
to work around them.

> Consensus or tyranny are better methods.

What method does the GCC steering committee use to resolve
disagreements?  I looked at the GCC web site, and as far as I can tell
their only formal conflict resolution mechanism consists of appealing
to the steering committee.  And I couldn't figure out what that latter
process involves.

I would hope that voting would be used only rarely when working on
GDB, and that the vast majority of conflicts could be resolved via
discussion.

David Carlton
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