Re: [PATCH] [cygwin|mingw] fix dlpreopen with --disable-static (take 8?)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Charles Wilson wrote:
> That's an...interesting take.  I've never assumed that ANY contribution
> would be acceptable unless it received an actual approval by a
> maintainer.  I mean, really: here's this patch, and no single maintainer
> has endorsed it without some significant objection -- and I should feel
> free as a non-maintainer to say "well, I disagree, so I'm pushing anyway"??

I think that you are attributing to much special status to official 
"maintainers".  It should not matter where approval comes from as long 
as the approval is from a sufficiently qualified person with knowledge 
of the subject who has done a proper review and/or actual testing. 
The official maintainers are sometimes not qualified to properly 
review a patch.

> That seems like a fast way to lose committer status, IMO.

While I am sure that it is possible to lose committer status due to 
misbehavior, I don't recall this happening in libtool history for any 
reason other than the person disappeared from the Internet or 
requested that their committer status be removed.  No one is 
threatening your committer status.

Bob
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