[maint] The GDB maintenance process

[Andrew Cagney]

> Has anyone taken the time to go through the list of outstanding patches
> and categorize them by maintainership?

Already done, see the bug database.   Mind you only very recently but I 
think we're already seeing results.

> I'm wondering if this is just a problem with a couple of maintainers
> being unresponsive.
> 
> For instance, as a not-so-wild guess, I'd say that the symtab part of
> gdb frequently falls behind.  That may be because there are more
> symtab-related patches being supplied or it could be that I'm just
> imagining things.

There are more symtab patches but, thanks to one maintainer, they are 
moving.  Not sure about other categories, some do appear stalled :-(

> If there are some maintainers who just aren't responsive enough, for
> whatever reason, then the simple expedient of adding another maintainer
> for that specific part of gdb might go a long way towards fixing the
> backlog.

There is responsive and then there is reliable :-/

Andrew