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Re: Maintainer policy for GDB
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at airs dot com>
- To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 26 Nov 2005 20:59:40 -0800
- Subject: Re: Maintainer policy for GDB
- References: <43893653.4080209@redhat.com>
Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com> writes:
> 2) Reverting a patch
>
> There hasn't been too much discussion of this, but it
> makes me nervous. May I throw this out on the table?
> How about if, except for area maintainers, it requires
> the agreement of at least two maintainers to revert
> another maintainer's patch?
For comparison, a gcc patch which causes a testsuite or significant
performance regression on a primary target may be reverted, if any two
people with write privileges (i.e., not just maintainers, but also
write-after-approval) agree, after waiting for 48 hours. In practice
this is rarely actually done; the threat of it is normally enough to
resolve the situation one way or another.
Ian