From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 13 13:24:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA10769 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:24:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA10450 for ; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 13:22:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from softweyr@xmission.xmission.com) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.7/8.7.5) id OAA29253; Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:20:45 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199802132120.OAA29253@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: Problems with new sound code? To: Studded@dal.net (Studded) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 14:20:44 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Studded" at Feb 13, 98 11:10:59 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Studded recently commented: > In response to Jordan's lament about people jumping on this before > it was "done," putting aside my strident objection to committing anything > to -Stable that doesn't actually work, this situation could have been You seem to fail to understand what a stringent requirement this is. Let me summarize: "Nobody should be allowed to commit something to -stable unless they can absolutely guarantee it will work on the first commit." Viewed in this light, it is apparent this request will result in NOTHING EVER GETTING COMMITED TO -stable. I assume this is *not* the desired effect. ;^) > avoided by a simple comment in LINT to the effect that this option doesn't > actually work yet. Yeah, that would've worked, wouldn't it? -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message