Re: [commit] Add add_setshow_enum_cmd, use in mips

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 01:54:16AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > We can't improve the code quality and design, which have suffered over
> > time, if we can't make progress on patches.  Indeed, the longer it
> > takes for every single change to go in, the less incentive there is to
> > clean anything up!  I'm sure losing incentive to fix things.
> 
> Then let's abandon the patch reviewing procedure completely and just
> commit whatever each one of us global maintainers finds appropriate.
> There are projects that actually work that way (Emacs, for example).
> I have no problem with that, as long as it is consistent and
> documented.

I've suggested something along those lines (not "abandoning patch
reviewing", but giving more authority to the global maintainers)
several times in the past, and met with mixed responses.  I hope to
eventually discuss this question with the GDB Steering Committee, and
get the result documented, one way or another.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz