Maintainer policy for GDB

[Jim Blandy]

On 11/18/05, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> In other words, if responsibility doesn't come with some unique
> authority, who will want such a responsibility?

People who take pleasure in being helpful to the project, and to Free
software.  People who want to establish a name for themselves as a
reliable contributor.  There are a lot of reasons people contribute to
Free software projects; I don't think the pursuit of authority is even
a particularly common motivation.

Not everyone finds authority to be a perk.  I don't enjoy it at all.