From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Buck To: bernds@redhat.com (Bernd Schmidt) Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINERS policy question Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:04:00 -0000 Message-id: <200109162203.PAA02401@atrus.synopsys.com> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00644.html > I have a question about how the MAINTAINERS file should be interpreted. > Suppose you have somebody listed as maintaining port X. Does this grant > the right to check in any patch for a problem that affects port X, or > does it only grant the right to modify config/X/*? > > I've had someone claim in private mail that it means the former, and > this surprised me, since I always assumed it meant the latter. The port maintainer will also need to deal with other port-specific components, for example the processor-specific atomicity code in libstdc++,