Machine maintainer responsibility description.

Steven Munroe munroesj@linux.vnet.ibm.comcom
Mon Jul 27 20:44:00 GMT 2015


On Mon, 2015-07-27 at 16:35 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> I have rewritten the machine maintainers section to read thusly:
> 
> ~~~
> A machine maintainer is responsible to the GNU C Library project
> for maintaining the support for their machine, and for supporting
> the users of that machine. In general this maintainership means
> that you have the discretion to assume consensus for a change of
> your own without waiting for review or comments on consensus. If
> the discussion shows there is no consensus after all then your
> change will need revising or reverting. This does not mean that 
> all objections are relevant for establishing lack of consensus, 
> e.g. if the reasons given are speculative, based on false analogies
> to other machines or a lack of understanding of the change and
> its context or themselves ignore other established consensus.
> Lastly keep in mind that sustained opposition may be ignored if
> it is not considered a substantial issue by an important part
> of the concerned developers.
> ~~~
> 
I can live with this definition.




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