Re: Small update to reversed_comparison_code

[dewar at gnat dot com]

Richard said

<<<<I do understand the concern, but GCC is a volunteer project, so motivation to
fix things is something that's not necessarily bad.  Sure, if this were a
commercial project with normal industrial management, this would be a very
bad thing, but the role of that management is precisely to make sure that
things like this don't fall on the floor.  In an unmanaged project there's
nobody to do that, so this sort of "extortion" has to play that role.
>>


Well I guess the GCC committee has to address this policy issue, and I
would advise a strict policy against deliberate breaking of the builds in
the manner being discussed here. 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, but it does not make their life
easier if people have the attitude that it is ok to break the builds to
"extort" people into fixing bugs that would otherwise not demand immediate
fixing.

Robert Dewar