An alternative way of appointing reviewers and maintainers

[Segher Boessenkool]

On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 05:53:18PM -0600, Jeff Law via Gcc wrote:
> On 6/3/25 1:41 PM, David Edelsohn via Gcc wrote:
> >What is not working with the current system?  What is this fixing?
> It relies on the someone to shepherd the process and it's something that 
> often gets pushed down on my daily todo list.  As a result nominations 
> don't happen or are extremely delayed.
> 
> Additionally there's no visibility into the process.  It's a total black 
> hole, particularly for cases where I'm on point.
> 
> This isn't necessarily a steering committee problem, but a time problem.
> 
> If we make things simpler for those cases where it is actually simple 
> and increase visibility so that folks know state I think it would be a 
> welcome improvement to the process.

Yup.  And it might not be a bad plan to get some people who still are
active onto the GCC steering committee, as well!

It is as important now as ever that there *is* such a thing as the SC:
all decisions need to be taken responsibiliity for by some final
authority, which we (as a project) have all decided to have that
authority.


Segher