committers?

Robert Collins robert.collins@itdomain.com.au
Fri Apr 19 17:11:00 GMT 2002



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 20, 2002 10:09 AM
> To: cygwin-developers@cygwin.com
> Subject: Re: committers?
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 20, 2002 at 08:22:33AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
> >I'm confused.  You have, on a fairly often basis, lamented the fact 
> >that no-one other than you and Corinna seems to take 
> responsibility for 
> >reviewing cygwin patches and changes.  You seem to be 
> indicating that 
> >you want more input into cygwin.  Yet when I do just that, 
> on a patch 
> >that is certainly not harmful (while maybe not optimal).  I didn't 
> >realise I was overstepping boundaries when I checked it in, so I'd 
> >appreciate it if you could restate those so I don't do so in future.
> 
> I don't know if you follow the gdb mailing list but it has 
> the concept of "maintainership".  We don't have anything as 
> formal here but I thought it was understood that only Corinna 
> and I have blanket checkin privileges.
> 
> I thought I'd explicitly said that anything thread-related 
> was in your domain.  And, I may have said that tty related 
> stuff was ok for Egor.

Ok, understood. Thanks.

I'll follow the patch details on the patch list.

Rob



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