Kenneth Zadeck wrote:
I wish to applogize to the Fortran maintainers if I have sturred up a hornet's nest. I had been told that the Fortran maintainers followed the rule, as a convention among themselves, that individuals did not approve their own non trivial patches. When the three of us became dataflow maintainers, we thought that this would be a good model to follow, but we also thought that it would be good to publicize that rule. I had only put the comment in the MAINTAINERS file, because that is where people go to find the proper maintainers and the more information about the process the better.
If I've given the impression that this is a "hornet's nest" (at least on my behalf), that was most definitely not my intention!
Mostly, I just felt that this should be discussed so that there was a public record of what the intention was, and so that I could feel confident that my understanding of what it meant was similar to other people's understanding. And this discussion is happening (mostly has happened), and questions have been answered, and so far as I can tell we're all agreed on what the comment is documenting.
I did have some concerns about what the change meant; those have been entirely addressed by the discussion, and I now completely agree that documenting this aspect of the process is a good thing.
I think my surprise at the change came across as much more annoyance and concern than I meant it to; my apologies to you and FX for that.
- Brooks
