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Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations
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Daniel Jacobowitz |
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Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations |
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Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:05:18 -0500 |
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On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 08:55:05AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I don't see how do you make the leap of logic between ``none of them
> understood the details of changes'' and ``in practice [committee
> members] should be active developers''. I think this requires
> explanation. In particular, how hard it is, in your opinion, to
> understand the details of the changes? A good programmer should be
> able to read code written by others and understand what it does
> without any difficulty, don't you think? In fact, every global
> maintainer does precisely that when they review patches in an area
> that is not their direct responsibility. If we can do that, why
> cannot others?
I don't think "read the code" makes any sense in this context. David's
example was the merge of a branch, which a non-trivial number of the
existing global maintainers think is the wrong approach, and which
constitutes the full time work of probably a dozen programmers for two
years. Even someone with a solid, fresh-vintage understanding of
everything ever written about compilers would have a lot of trouble
giving any kind of opinion about that code if they weren't also
intimately familiar with the existing code, not just a knowledge of its
general structure.
Maybe it is an extreme example, but it's one of the stated roles of the
steering committee.
I also don't think a knowledge of "general structure" would be enough
to have a useful technical opinion.
This is, of course, only my opinion.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
- Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, (continued)
- 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, 2004/02/18
- 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 <=
- 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
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Jim Blandy, 2004/02/24
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Andrew Cagney, 2004/02/24
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Richard Stallman, 2004/02/26
Re: [Gdbheads] Steering Committee nominations, Elena Zannoni, 2004/02/24