Context
Around a year and a half ago, I’ve asked my former company for some time to
work on an issue that was impacting the debugging capabilities in our project:
gdbserver couldn’t debug multithreaded applications running on a PowerPC32
architecture. The connection to the gdbserver was broken and it couldn’t
control the debug session anymore. Multiple people have already investigated
this problem and I had a good starting point, but we still weren’t sure in
which software component the issue lied: it could have been the toolchain, the
gdbserver, the Linux kernel or the custom patches we applied on top of the
kernel tree. We were quite far away from finding the root cause.
Being a maintainer is often a thankless, unpaid, never ending job. I will always give maintainers the benefit of the doubt, especially when they are being active, and not leaving gaps.
Regardless of how this contributer wants to be acknowledged for a drive by contribution, Im sure they will keep developing and build a name for themselves so that a single patch isn’t a huge issue
Being a maintainer is often a thankless, unpaid, never ending job. I will always give maintainers the benefit of the doubt, especially when they are being active, and not leaving gaps.
Regardless of how this contributer wants to be acknowledged for a drive by contribution, Im sure they will keep developing and build a name for themselves so that a single patch isn’t a huge issue