Why not gnat Ada in gcc?

[Jeffrey A Law]

  In message < 10011020224.AA06122@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu >you write:
  >     Funny, that's not unlike the argument originally made for GDB.  And
  >     gee whiz, the developers we never knew of did start coming out of the
  >     blue to do development.  Similarly with GCC when we opened up its
  >     development via egcs -- lots of folks started contibuting that had
  >     never contributed before.
  > 
  > Yes, but in both cases there were *some* contributors before. 
Not really for GDB.  I can count the number of external contributors on one
hand that existed before we made a repository available on sourceware.

jeff