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From: | Andrew Cagney |
Subject: | Re: [Gdbheads] proposed change to GDB maintainership rules |
Date: | Thu, 29 Jan 2004 11:57:34 -0500 |
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- the other other perenial - old dormant / inactive developersThere is still no clearly documented process for addressing this. Adding more developers to an area appears to be approach used by GCC? It's only a short term solution.No, GCC's approach is to have active global maintainers who can and do approve patches in otherwise dormant areas.
Which papers over the problem - a growing list of dormant developers apparently responsible for a given area. However, true, in the short term, patches do get reviewed.
Andrew
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