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Date:      Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:27:03 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Anna Wilcox <AWilcox@wilcox-tech.com>, "Brian McGovern (bmcgover)" <bmcgover@cisco.com>, Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de>, Sean Bruno <sbruno@freebsd.org>, "sparc64@freebsd.org" <sparc64@freebsd.org>, freebsd-arch <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org>, Jordan Hubbard <jkh@mail.turbofuzz.com>, Elizabeth Myers <elizabeth@interlinked.me>
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 doesn't care about you, and you shouldn't care about Sparc64
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:06:35AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> We don’t have a “king of the kernel” or “king of mips” or anything
> like that.  We document that you send mail to mips@ when you don’t
> know the right person to send.

And I don't see why we should.  What would we gain from this administrative
overhead?

What we lose is: dealing with people who have the title not doing work,
or people not having the title, doing the work, being irritated by not
having the title.

svn can, with a little effort, demonstrate who is looking after what.

All I see is cost and no benefit.  This isn't an "org chart" kind of
issue IMHO.

In FreeBSD, why delegate responsibility to anyone other than those who
take it by their own initiative?

mcl



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