Some thoughts about steerring commitee work

[Toon Moene]

Mark Mitchell wrote:

> One advantage of having some SC members who are not GCC developers (and
> thus seem less involved) is that they are more independent.  They have
> no commercial stake in which companies have maintainers,

The funny part in the discussion on the SC is that most contributors 
seem to place me firmly in the "users" basket, while, at the same time, 
in the Fortran Standardization Committee (http://j3-fortran.org) I'm 
firmly placed in the "vendors" bucket ...

You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people 
some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time (whose quote 
am I mangling here ?).

BTW, *I* wouldn't be opposed to elections and no-more-years terms for SC 
members.   Part of it is experience in dealing with GCC-within-the-GNU 
project; part of it is experience in developing a great compiler.

Cheers,

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