From 58cfabe6f8b559d79be8946424e263e5ecc955f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Cagney Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 03:11:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * MAINTAINERS: Add ``The Obvious Fix Rule''. --- gdb/ChangeLog | 4 ++++ gdb/MAINTAINERS | 14 ++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+) diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 130f179..5aa2f11 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,9 @@ 2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney + * MAINTAINERS: Add ``The Obvious Fix Rule''. + +2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney + * MAINTAINERS: Add Michael Snyder to Solaris/SPARC list. 2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney diff --git a/gdb/MAINTAINERS b/gdb/MAINTAINERS index 412c2fc..764de67 100644 --- a/gdb/MAINTAINERS +++ b/gdb/MAINTAINERS @@ -27,6 +27,20 @@ responsibility falls to the first maintainer. The first maintainer is free to devolve that responsibility among the other maintainers. + The Obvious Fix Rule + +All maintainers listed in this file are allowed to check in obvious +fixes. + +An "obvious fix" means that there is no possibility that anyone will +disagree with the change. Something like bypassing an interface will +result in instantaneous and loud complaints. + +A good mental test is "will the person who hates my work the most be +able to find fault with the change" - if so, then it's not obvious and +needs to be posted first. :-) + + Target/Architecture: Generic ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) issues, API variants, CPU -- 2.7.4