Re: MAINTAINERS file updated with ping results

[Jim Blandy <jimb at red-bean dot com>]

If I'm reading the descriptions right, it's not meaningful to list
someone as both a global maintainer and as an authorized committer;
the former has the rights of the latter.  But of the entries now in
"Authorized Committers", many belong to people who are also global
maintainers.

To be clear: I think it's very important that people are given credit
for their contributions; it's one of my primary motivations in working
on Free software.  So if people feel that having their names listed in
both places is valuable in being recognized for their work, I don't
object.  My point is that, as far as our procedures are concerned, it
seems redundant.

So if the general sense is that the first purpose of gdb/MAINTAINERS
is to describe our permissions and responsibilities, then it should be
trimmed.