PROPOSAL: Variation on an Alternate policy for obsoleting targets

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "Bruce" == Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> writes:

 Bruce> In the interests of keeping fixinc from becoming a
 Bruce> monotonically increasing behemoth, I propose the following
 Bruce> addition:

 >> Now for the actual obsolescence rule. :-)
 >> 
 >> Any target which has significant custom code (for instance, its
 >> own subdirectory or file under config/) requires a maintainer.
 >> This is most of them.
 >> 
 >> Any such target without a maintainer is advertised as needing one.

 Bruce> Maintainers would make at least one build with a
 Bruce> GCC_MAINTAINER_MODE environment variable set. 

Is there any documentation that explains what that does?  I've only
seen statements that amount to "this does magical things that only
maintainer need".

   paul