From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 7 19:18:54 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E73D41065673 for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:18:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx22.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C038FC1F for ; Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 7504 invoked by uid 399); 7 Jan 2011 19:18:53 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO doug-optiplex.ka9q.net) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 7 Jan 2011 19:18:53 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4D27671C.5070907@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:18:52 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101210 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jaakko Heinonen References: <201101071059.p07AxN1F049134@svn.freebsd.org> <4D27593A.8050103@FreeBSD.org> <20110107190037.GA1501@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> In-Reply-To: <20110107190037.GA1501@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r217090 - head/etc X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 19:18:55 -0000 On 01/07/2011 11:00, Jaakko Heinonen wrote: > > Hi, > > On 2011-01-07, Doug Barton wrote: >> If by silence you mean that there was no comment on the PR in the future >> please don't take that as tacit approval. There are a non-trivial number >> of PRs assigned to -rc, and historically the practice has been not to >> comment on them until someone indicates that they actually plan to do >> something about it. >> >> In the future it would be great if you could send a note to the list >> indicating that you plan to make a change, and then wait say 2 or 3 >> non-{weekend|holiday} days for feedback. > > I mean this message: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-December/002142.html > > I waited>2 weeks for comments and then committed the patch. Admittedly > I posted the patch as a bug follow-up but I made sure that the message > ended up to freebsd-rc list. Yeah, that's Ok, and I should have mentioned that this change is fine. My point more generally is that regular e-mail about proposed changes is more likely to get useful attention and feedback. Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/