Re: Richard Sandiford appointed RTL maintainer

[Diego Novillo <dnovillo at google dot com>]

On 11-06-28 09:02 , Vladimir Makarov wrote:

> Bernd and Richard, I'd like thank you for generous support of me. But
> the email was mostly not about my frustration. I raised several
> questions relative to the decision:
>
> * ambiguity of the decision. What does RTL optimizers/RTL maintainer mean?

Anything related to RTL, in my view.  As much as possible, I would lean 
towards flexible definitions of maintenance boundaries.  If we make them 
too inflexible, this will not help reviews (many patches cross some 
boundary in trivial ways).

We should trust maintainers/reviewers to know their own boundaries and 
decide whether a patch touches too many areas they don't feel 
comfortable reviewing.  This has happened many times in the past, with 
no negative consequences.  So, reviewers are by and large DTRT.

> * appointments are technical decisions and it should be not in
> jurisdiction of SC.
> * quality of SC decisions.

So, according to what we discussed in London, the SC will essentially 
not make appointment decisions.  We will recommend them, and they will 
agree.  If we find unreasonable resistance, we will then see what to do 
about that.


Diego.