Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

[Vladimir N. Makarov]

Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

>"Vladimir N. Makarov" <vmakarov@redhat.com> writes:
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>>Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>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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>There will always be private conversations about GCC.  You can't
>prevent that.  IRC is less private than other places.
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>When I said lobbying, I meant only that I complained about it.  I
>could have complained about it in e-mail the same way.  There were no
>important conversations about it on IRC.  If the SC members use IRC at
>all, they don't use #gcc.
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>I'm having a hard time interpreting your comments because I don't
>understand what you want to be done differently.
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I am not against IRC.  We have free speech right (which means some 
responsibility too).  We could (and we do) discuss whatever we want 
wherever we want with whom we want.  I just wish that some discussion 
important for all community were discussed not only IRC because they 
involve not only people who are on IRC.

>Speaking only for myself, I think it would be silly to stop using IRC.
>I don't think it would work for the SC to conduct their deliberations
>in public.
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I don't like to see the deliberation in public too (it would be a 
nightmare for developers ego).  But I'd like to see a bit more 
motivation and explanation in the SC decisions.  Then you would not have 
to write the first your message in this thread.

>  I do think that the SC membership should change from time
>to time, but I have no concrete proposal for how to make that happen.
>I do think that there should be more active global maintainers, but
>the SC appears to disagree.  I do think that the gcc is extremely
>successful as free software projects go, which is not to say that it
>can not be improved.
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I am agree that GCC is successful especially as a community project.  
But with my point of view, we could do better to serve our users (and 
customers)

Please, just look at those charts

https://vmakarov.108.redhat.com/nonav/spec/comparison.html

The compilation speed decrease without a performance improving (at least 
for the default case) is really scary.  I'd like to see sticking to the 
decision that every next release should be better.  Although I don't 
have ideas for now how to achieve this.

And of course, I just speak for myself too.