Re: Maintainer policy for GDB

[Paul Gilliam <pgilliam at us dot ibm dot com>]

On Friday 18 November 2005 10:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Paul Gilliam <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
> > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:56:14 -0800
> > Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>, cagney@gnu.org,
> >         jtc@acorntoolworks.com, fnf@ninemoons.com,
> >         Peter.Schauer@regent.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de, ezannoni@redhat.com
> > 
> > On Friday 18 November 2005 04:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 15:10:20 -0800
> > > > From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> > > > 
> > > > About the voting system: I would also prefer to avoid this. The history
> > > > of the GDB maintenance community since I joined shows that we're able
> > > > to work together without unsolvable disagreements.
> > > 
> > > How far into the past does your history go?  I've seen unsolvable
> > > disagreements less than a year ago.
> > 
> > Do you have a URL into the mailing list archive?
> 
> I started to look for it, but then I read your other comments and
> realized that you were mocking me.  So I won't bother looking for the

Please forgive me if I gave the impression I was mocking you!  That was far from my intention!
I just wanted to be able to take a look at the situation to which you where refering.

> relevant messages.  Some of them were in private mail, so there's no
> URLs anyway.
> 
> But reality doesn't change if there's no URL to show as evidence.  If
> you don't believe me that these things happened, ask others here, they
> will tell you.

I was not calling your veracity into question,  I just don't remember.  Sometimes I get so focused
on the current thing, I tend to tune-out what doesn't directly apply to it.

> 
> > Is there a technological solution to this problem?  Something that could
> > tell if a person were NOT subscribed to the list and send the mail directly?
> 
> I don't know of any technological solution, except to configure the
> list server to filter addresses in order to prevent multiple messages.
> Most mailing lists don't do that, and FWIW I'm used to have double
> messages, they don't annoy me.

Me too.  It took awhile to get used to, though.

>                                                    That's why I cannot understand why 
> people bother to use Mail-Followup-To.  IMHO it causes more trouble
> than it's worth.
> 
> 

PS:  You have contributed so much to GDB that only a jerk would be less than polite to you.