Hi! On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:41:37AM +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > WaA is decided by the sourceware maintainers. The request form says > > "email address of person who approved request", but that is not who has > > the final call :-) Which of course makes sense, the sourceware > > maintainers primarily need to keep their system safe and working! > > That is not how it works.
We'll have to disagree then. > Technically of course sourceware overseers > could just randomly add or remove accounts. But I don't remember any > instance of that ever happening. And I never said that, that is a gross misrepresentation of my argument. I say they are the final authority on this. And that is true AFAICS. > > That is not how things work. The SC decides who does and does not > > become maintainer (reviewer is just a hobbled kind of maintainer, there > > is no real difference). Maintainers for frontends, backends, subsystems > > can recommend things, sure. But they have no separate authority, there > > can not be fiefdoms. This is Good(tm). > > This case is Richard's proposal and I think it will lead to having > more active maintainers and reviewers precisely because currently the > SC is a bit stale and mostly not very active. IMHO the active > maintainers know best here and we don't need the SC for these kind of > decisions. I don't agree. If you want to topple the power structure we have for GCC you can try to do that, but what would be the point, other than getting more power into the hands of some other people? Segher
