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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
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* MAINTAINERS: Add ``The Obvious Fix Rule''.
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diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
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@@ -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 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