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

[Charles Wilson]

On 7/3/2010 7:05 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jul 2010, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>
>> That's an...interesting take.  I've never assumed that ANY contribution
> 
> 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.

Maybe so...

>> 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.  

Of course not; we wouldn't be very likely to grant such status in the
first place to people liable to abuse it.

> No one is threatening your
> committer status.

I didn't say they were.  But if I *did* misbehave -- well, I could
hardly be surprised by the inevitable consequences, could I? Doesn't
take a genius to predict those consequences, either.

--
Chuck