Re: [Gdbheads] Let's resolve this quickly

[Robert Dewar]

Stan Shebs wrote:

> We kind of skipped over some background assumptions, one of which
> is that the steering committee is not supposed to make technical
> decisions. The SC is supposed to be mostly about personnel decisions
> and maybe scheduling.

Indeed, and in such matters non-public discussion is often
appropriate. In those extremely rare cases where a technical
issue gets booted up to the SC, it is because open discussion
has failed to reach a consensus. This should almost never happen
in practice.

Note that this is an argument for avoiding a situation where you
have some but not all of the maintainers on the SC. But there
are arguments both ways there.