Re: Small update to reversed_comparison_code

[kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)]

    It seems wholly unhelpful to me to characterize GCC as an "unmanaged
    project". There are lots of people (including notably Mark) who are
    indeed managing this project, and as far as I can see doing an
    admirable job

Mark is "managing" the *release*.  There is very specifically is no "manager"
(in any sense) of the entire development process and it was designed that way.

I use quotes because part of management in a commercial setting is the
ability to insist what the people they supervise work on.  That cannot be
done with the GCC project and is what I meant by "unmanaged".  Nobody, no
matter how well-intentioned or competant, has any power to dictate what
developers do.  In a commercial managed project, it is the *role* of
management to decide what people work on and with what priority.

I'm not trying to fault individuals for "poor management", but to point out
that management *cannot* be applied to the GCC project (and if it could
somehow be done, most contributors would go away).