Re: New MI maintainer

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 03:28:53PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz
wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:18:46AM +1300, Nick Roberts
wrote:
> > 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.

A free and open society protects its users by making public
its
actions and intents. By allowing the SC to deliberate its
actions
behind closed doors gives me only a reason to doubt it. I do
not
support this process, and therefor default to understanding
Nicks
response. A natural consequence of such secret deliberations
is
frustration and a lack of trust by the users. So, how could
you expect
an apology? If I were you, I would expect more of what you
just got.

I think the closed process pushes us all apart, instead of
together,
which is where we should be.

Sincerely,
Bob Rossi

    A free and open society protects its users by making
public its
    actions and intents.

The GNU Project is not a government, and it does not aim to
represent
the people in general, or the users.  Our goals go far
beyond "making
users happy".  We campaign for your freedom to change
and redistribute
your own version of a program.

That does not include your having the right to be consulted
by us
about what we do in developing a program.  Because the
program is free,
you are not bound by our decisions anyway.