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authorAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-02-07 03:11:44 +0000
committerAndrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com>2001-02-07 03:11:44 +0000
commitaca9602eecb51e5e949d5080be4bf19a8976af96 (patch)
tree0ced9dc2912ed0356e15f9baf62bec570754d644
parent6324ce8903d62ca1522cbe366ec6691578b72ea3 (diff)
downloadgdb-aca9602eecb51e5e949d5080be4bf19a8976af96.tar.gz
* MAINTAINERS: Add ``The Obvious Fix Rule''.
-rw-r--r--gdb/ChangeLog4
-rw-r--r--gdb/MAINTAINERS14
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 130f1797883..5aa2f11ac3e 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
+ * MAINTAINERS: Add ``The Obvious Fix Rule''.
+
+2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
+
* MAINTAINERS: Add Michael Snyder to Solaris/SPARC list.
2001-02-06 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
diff --git a/gdb/MAINTAINERS b/gdb/MAINTAINERS
index 412c2fceaa0..764de675503 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