Who is the boss here?

[Mike Stump]

On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 06:03 PM, Carlo Wood wrote:
> One of the things that annoys me most often as a
> beginning gcc developer is that I have still no idea who is the
> boss here :/

They are listed in the maintainers file.  In general, you can ignore 
everyone but the one maintainer who is going to approve your patch, 
though, often other people do have good ideas, and usually the 
maintainer will expect that the reasonable issues raised are addressed. 
  Now, an expert should be able to figure out the reasonable issues from 
the unreasonable ones, but it is sometimes hard for non-exerts to 
figure this out.  I don't have a good suggestion on improving this 
situation.

I think the reason that most maintainers don't just cut things off, is 
it comes across kinda, I know better than you, and doing so takes time 
and would spawn a longer discussion....  Also, sometimes people can 
chime in with interesting tidbits that the maintainer (or others) might 
be interested in reading or understanding.