Re: [commit] Mark up add_com, add_info and add_prefix_cmd

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz at gnu dot org>]

> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:00:20 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > Andrew, both Eli and I have asked you to stop doing committing these
> > patches.
> 
> (Which is funny.  When I indicated that I was stopping dw_op_piece 
> patches, you had the exact oposite reaction.  I guess you need 
> DW_OP_piece but not i18n)

So do you think Daniel was right or wrong back then?  If he was right,
why did you object?  And if he was wrong, why are you doing the same
now?

> I'm doing my job as head developer

Your job as head developer doesn't give you a prerogative to commit
changes over numerious objections of your fellow maintainers, some of
whom know about i18n much more than you do.  I will ask again: please
stop this antisocial conduct.

> putting in the hard yards needed to fix this tedious, long standing,
> and very long overdue problem in GDB - getting bulk of the text
> marked up.

And I made a point of thanking you for doing that job.  But waiting
for a day or two to hear comments about the proposed patches will not
hamper your work in any way (you could in the meantime work on the
next chunk of patches).  OTOH, the way you do it now could easily
cause permanent damage to the GDB collaboration spirit.  Why is a risk
of small delays worth that?

For that matter, what is the rush to have i18n right now?  Do we have
any deadlines on i18n support, and if so, what are those deadlines and
who set them?

> On the other hand, what I'm seeing from each of you is trivial 
> complaints and objections serving no purpose other than to block this task.

So you are saying that the comments I posted to your patches are
useless, and no more than ``trivial complaints and objections''?
Would you like me to stop reviewing any further patches, or perhaps
even resign altogether as a GDB maintainer?

Thinking about that, perhaps we should all resign and leave you alone
maintaining GDB--that would certainly solve quite a few problems that
annoy you now...