Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:45:54 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <address@hidden>
> 
> Reverting patches isn't currently part of GDB's culture - the last time 
> I did it, I was disciplined by my peers.  As a consequence, I won't 
> revert patches - instead always putting forward a rationale for the 
> reversion, and asking that it be done.

I agree that asking the original "cvs ci" person to undo that is
better than for someone else to do it as a kind of ``punishment''.
But I don't think it matters in principle in the context of this
discussion: namely, that a patch that is felt to be wrong would be
reverted.