Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13) [LWN.net]

From:		kenner-AT-vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu (Richard Kenner)
To:		bonzini-AT-gnu.org
Subject:		Re: GCC 4.4.0 Status Report (2009-03-13)
Date:		Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:07:01 EDT
Message-ID:		<10903202307.AA26704@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu>
Cc:		Joe.Buck-AT-synopsys.com, dave.korn.cygwin-AT-googlemail.com, dberlin-AT-dberlin.org, dje.gcc-AT-gmail.com, gcc-AT-gcc.gnu.org, law-AT-redhat.com, rguenther-AT-suse.de, stevenb.gcc-AT-gmail.com
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> > The  GCC maintainers work on behalf of the FSF and in some matters defer
> > to the FSF.  It's that simple.
> 
> Yes, but it's not written anywhere that release and especially branching
> policies are one of this matters.

The matters to which we defer to the FSF are any matters that they *ask*
us to!  They own the code.  If RMS, for some reason, decides that he doesn't
like the phrasing of a comment somewhere, we have to either convince RMS
he's wrong or change the comment.

As a practical matter, the FSF *delegates* most of their responsibilities
to the maintainer of the package, but they can undo that delegation as to 
any matter any time they want.

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