Re: New MI maintainer

 > > I must say I'm surprised by this appointment for
several reasons.  When I
 > > offered to act as maintainer, a year or so ago,
although I had Eli's
 > > support and other's endorsed it off-list, e.g.,
Alain Magloire, my offer
 > > was declined.
 > 
 > Yes.  The global maintainers have been discussing the
problem of MI
 > maintenance for at least that long.  I was hoping to
leave this out of
 > the announcement, but the consensus of that group was
that you were
 > not a suitable choice for a GDB maintainer.  Part of
the delay was our
 > hope that the situation would improve.

Apart from Eli's support I had no feedback from that offer
so clearly I
don't understand what that means.

 > > The process behind these decisions is not open to
me but it doesn't escape
 > > my attention that Vladimir is now part of
CodeSourcery, and that
 > > CodeSourcery have at least one contract (with
Ericsson) to work on Eclipse
 > > which uses GDB/MI in its DSF plugin.  I ask
myself in whose interest this
 > > appointment is made.  It's certainly not the GNU
project or the FSF.
 > 
 > I expect an apology from you for this offensive
statement.  I am the
 > only member of the GDB steering committee working at
CodeSourcery, and
 > the SC is a group of GDB contributors, not some sort
of sock puppet.
 > The decision was made solely based on the interests of
GDB in our best
 > judgement.

I don't want to escalate the invective but I don't really
see why I should
apologise for my perceptions.  If, as you say, the decision
was carefully
discussed, it would not have escaped the global maintainers
attention that I
was interested in the role.  Given that I have made
significant contributions
to GDB/MI over a long period of time then it would then seem
appropriate to at
least e-mail me off-list before the announcement to inform
me of your
intention.

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.n
z/~nickrob

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:46:04AM +1300, Nick Roberts
wrote:
> was interested in the role.  Given that I have made
significant contributions
> to GDB/MI over a long period of time then it would then
seem appropriate to at
> least e-mail me off-list before the announcement to
inform me of your
> intention.

Yes.  I didn't handle the announcement well, and I should
have avoided
the (untrue) appearance of conflict of interest by asking
someone else
to make the announcement.  Joel has kindly volunteered to
make
announcements in the future if this situation comes up
again.

This appointment isn't supposed to be a slap in the face for
anyone
not appointed.  It's supposed to get us out of bad
situation: Vladimir
can now approve MI patches, including yours, so you won't
have to sit
around waiting for me to look at them.  I have every
confidence that
he will be better about it than I was, and that he will
listen when
there's a disagreement about the right choices.  If I
wasn't
confident, I would have objected to the appointment.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery