Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

Vladimir N. Makarov vmakarov@redhat.com
Fri Jun 15 19:28:00 GMT 2007


Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>I've been lobbying for some time, on IRC, for more people to be able
>to fill in the holes in the maintainership patterns.  Most of the
>existing global maintainers are inactive.  There are areas of the code
>which are not covered by the other maintainership groupings.  Thus
>there are areas where patches go unreviewed.  I believe, though I have
>not been told, that non-algorithmic global maintainer is intended to
>address this gap.  Making me one of the people with that role is most
>likely following the principle that the person who complains gets the
>job.
>
>  
>
Ian, may be I am wrong but I see a problem that some important for all 
GCC community things are discussed only on IRC.  Not all people are on 
IRC.  Moreover some people avoiding the IRC for some reasons.



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