Maintainer policy for GDB

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 10:57:43 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> > I'm not sure I understand what you mean by ``friction''.  Can you
> > elaborate?
> 
> I expect that contributors will get annoyed at maintainers who are
> responsible but inactive (because they've added delay), and in return
> those maintainers will get annoyed at contributors for any comments
> they make about the subject.

We could ask that maintainers immediately acknowledge seeing the RFA,
and tell the contributor the ETA for their review.  I think this will
avoid annoyances in many cases: people usually get annoyed that they
don't see any response whatsoever, not because they need to wait for a
few days.

> A timeout is all well and good for you and for documentation, Eli;
> you're unbelievably responsive.

Only for the documentation; when I need to review code, e.g. in
breakpoint.c, it usually takes a few days, as I don't have enough free
time on weekdays to wade through non-trivial code.

> I think we need to compromise and move on.

Yep.