From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26049 invoked by alias); 5 Mar 2005 20:34:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 26032 invoked from network); 5 Mar 2005 20:34:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 5 Mar 2005 20:34:14 -0000 Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (p20-tnt1.snap.net.nz [202.124.110.20]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55DB548C75E; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:34:12 +1300 (NZDT) Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 501) id ED83B62FBE; Sat, 5 Mar 2005 20:32:40 +0000 (GMT) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16938.5992.336181.640228@farnswood.snap.net.nz> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 20:34:00 -0000 To: Bob Rossi Cc: Eli Zaretskii , gdb@sources.redhat.com, cagney@redhat.com, ezannoni@redhat.com, fnasser@redhat.com Subject: Re: patch review time X-SW-Source: 2005-03/txt/msg00047.txt.bz2 > BTW, 2 of the MI MAINTAINERS completely do *nothing*. They don't respond > to Emails, they don't review patches, and as far as I can tell, do > nothing behind the scene. > Shouldn't they be removed from this position, since, IMO, they are *not* > maintaining the code. I think having 3 maintainers under the section > mi (gdb/mi) Andrew Cagney cagney@redhat.com > Elena Zannoni ezannoni@redhat.com > Fernando Nasser fnasser@redhat.com > is misleading. Since Andrew is the *only* one I can tell is maintaining > code for MI, even if it's not at the speed that I desire. Hang on. Let's be pragmatic. How will things get *better* if they are removed. They are the original authors and know the code better than the rest of us. We don't know what their committments/current interests are. At the moment, they might contribute at some time in the future. If they are removed then presumably they won't. Bob, you're not the only one whose e-mails go ignored. Answering questions, reviewing patches takes up time. Unpaid time. If my e-mail is unanswered, it tells me something: either people aren't interested or they are too busy. Sometimes I let it go, sometimes I realise it was a stupid question, and sometimes I send another e-mail and try to add something to get a reply. It only makes sense to remove people from MAINTAINERS if some-one else is stepping forward with the enough expertise and enthusiasm. Right know, with MI, AFAIK they aren't. Shit happens. Nick