Roger Sayle writes: > > Increasingly, there have been examples of patches getting checked-in > without maintainer approval, or without posting to gcc-patches, etc...
Are you absolutely sure that's true? i.e., do you believe that these days there is a greater _proportion_ of unapproved patches checked in than was the case in the past? If that is the case, we perhaps should look at yanking some people's access. We shouldn't change general policy for the sake of a few individuals. Getting copyright approval is painful enough without putting even more hurdles in a new contributor's way. Anything we do to make the process of becoming a gcc maintainer even less inviting than it is at the moment is a Bad Thing. Once someone has contributed a decent patch or two, we should consider giving them access if their apparent expertise warrants it. If they turn out to be a real klutz we can always disable it. And we all make mistakes sometimes. Andrew.
