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Re: non-algorithmic maintainers
- From: Richard Guenther <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>
- To: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>, Daniel Berlin <dberlin at dberlin dot org>, Zdenek Dvorak <rakdver at kam dot mff dot cuni dot cz>
- Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:15:34 +0100
- Subject: Re: non-algorithmic maintainers
- References: <ibs715$26h$1@dough.gmane.org>
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
> We currently have 3 non-algorithmic maintainers:
>
> loop optimizer ? ? ? ? ?Zdenek Dvorak ? ? ? ? ? ook@ucw.cz
> loop optimizer ? ? ? ? ?Daniel Berlin ? ? ? ? ? dberlin@dberlin.org
> libcpp ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Tom Tromey ? ? ? ? ? ? ?tromey@redhat.com
>
> Especially for the loop optimizer, the situation is a bit strange. There are
> no other maintainers for this specific area (only middle-end/GIMPLE/RTL
> maintainers); Daniel has never really been active in this area (except for
> the old lambda code and scev which has separate maintainers); Zdenek, while
> not very active lately, has basically written the loop optimizer and has
> always been helpful with reviews.
>
> I don't think there is a particular reason to keep this category, whose
> boundaries have actually never been very clear.
I thought that all non-algorithmic maintainers were demoted to reviewers
automagically. It would be indeed nice to get rid of the strange
category.
Consider demoting yourself voluntarily (by applying a patch moving
yourself to the reviewers section).
Richard.
> Paolo
>
>