Objective-C bugs and GCC releases

[Daniel Berlin]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, Helge Hess wrote:

> On Jan 25, 2005, at 16:32, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>> You're forgetting that this is a volunteer project.  We can't force
>> developers to work on something they don't want to work on.
>
> Every project has rules which need to be followed, even by volunteers. And in 
> the past is was usual behaviour, if not unwritten law, not to break other 
> people's stuff.
> Sure, modifications are allowed, but if you change something you need to take 
> care it doesn't affect other parts _of the same project_. And cc1obj _is_ 
> (still?) a part of GCC.

Zem (the objective C maintainer) broke the objective C frontend, not some 
other developer.
So your argument doesn't seem to apply, because it had nothing to do with 
something in the middle end breaking a frontend.