On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:49:57PM +0200, Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:41:59PM +0100, Richard Sandiford wrote: > > More important (and getting off the soap-box, or at least changing to a > > different one): people seem to be saying that Liqin acted wrongly in > > checking in patches to the port. Surely the procedural problem was > > at the FSF end: a global maintainer gave permission for something to > > be added before any maintainer had been appointed for it. > > I can't find the place that says that a maintainer has to be appointed > for a new backend before its inclusion in GCC. > > I can't find the place that describes the procedure for appointing > maintainers. Not having this clearly documentaion will easily cause > confusion because people who are not maintainers but have "write after > approval" permission are also listed in a file called MAINTAINERS, where > they are even supposed to add themselves.
The Steering Committee appoints maintainers, and must approve new ports, language front ends, and the like. Once a maintainer is appointed, someone on the SC will ask the maintainer to add him/herself to MAINTAINERS.
