Re: Write after approval additions

[fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)]

DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com> writes:

: [...]
: There was *no* list of write-after-approval people for binutils.  All
: I had to go on was the cvs permissions list and a long history of
: random people checking things in all over the place. [...]

Right, but if you need to police CVS commits after the fact, then you
have the same problem.  In other words, the effects of
write-after-approval in the binutils vs gdb senses are hard to
distinguish: if someone checks in approved patches, there is no
problem in either case; if someone checks in unapproved patches, the
same badness occurs in both cases.


: > In what way is it a *useful* middle point between maintainers and
: > ordinary contributors?
: [...]

Sorry, I meant to wonder aloud about the spectrum between maintainers
and those potential contributors who already have CVS access, but are
not on the GDB list, or equivalently, between the gdb vs binutils
senses.


- FChE