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Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations
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David Carlton |
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Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations |
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Wed, 18 Feb 2004 10:49:04 -0800 |
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On 18 Feb 2004 08:09:04 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> said:
> 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 a couple of potential problems with excluding GDB maintainers
from the committee:
* As Ian pointed out, it's sometimes important for the steering
committee to have a feel for the effects of changes on GDB's source
code. For example, I don't see how the GCC steering committee would
have been able to decide whether or not to merge tree-ssa into GCC
3.5 without that sort of data. So, while I certainly wouldn't want
to require all SC members to follow gdb-patches, I think it would be
bad if none of them understood the details of changes, which
probably in practice means that several (most?) of its members
should be active developers.
* I think there will be authority problems with the SC if none of its
members are active GDB developers. GDB is a volunteer project; it's
hard to get volunteers to follow orders if the people making those
orders don't have authority coming from their actions within the
project, not just from their presence on a list somewhere.
David Carlton
address@hidden
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, (continued)
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/18
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/20
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/20
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- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/20
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/21
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Michael Snyder, 2004/02/24
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations,
David Carlton <=
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Andrew Cagney, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, David Carlton, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Robert Dewar, 2004/02/19
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, David Carlton, 2004/02/19
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Elena Zannoni, 2004/02/19
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Daniel Jacobowitz, 2004/02/19
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Andrew Cagney, 2004/02/23
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/24