[maint] The GDB maintenance process

[Andrew Cagney]

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> 
> We've got two separate discussions here:  The social conventions
> and procedures for how patches are discussed/applied, and the
> infrastructure to support those things.
> 
> Using GNATS as the infrastructure to track patches is pathetic.

Not as pathetic as `cagney's mailbox sitting on a lapbrick with a 
failing hard disk'.

> Using mailing lists to track patches is annoying.

Er, you can't track patches using a mailing list.  A mailing list can be 
used to submit/discuss patches.  It can't be used to track their state. 
  that needs a database.

Time to install aegis, ay?

Andrew