Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 02:35:02 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Philippe Charnier <charnier@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.8 inetd.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001290225080.18581-100000@green.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20000129131302.Z583@freebie.lemis.com>
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 28 January 2000 at 12:12:54 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > <<On 28 Jan 2000 13:23:54 +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no> said: > > > >> I seem to recall claiming maintainership of inetd... > > > > That does not give you the right to impede the work of the > > documentation project. > > That was never the purpose of being MAINTAINER. As being a maintainer of code which I only wrote a very small bit of, but am very familiar with, dd(1), I put MAINTAINER in the Makefile to signify this. I want to show people that 1. I know what this code does 2. I know what this code should do 3. if there are disputes about it, or problems with it, you can come to me and 4. Since I have a very good understanding of all of this, I would appreciate if you let me review anything you plan to do to it. I see being maintainer as an issue of who should be messing with this code _since_ they're people who have messed with this code a lot, and know this code well. In fact, it's a very good thing to have MAINTAINER in case you (for example) don't know the right person that you would want to contact directly for things which regard whatever it is. I really don't think it's fair to impede others with an undue delay, so if this happens and someone makes a commit without the maintainer's specific permission, the maintainer should really not make a big fuss unless it is a huge mistake. I don't like the fact that being maintainer of something is seen as a big threatening gesture from some people or to some people, and really don't think it should be carried as such. Once again, I've been too verbose. Sorry :) > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! / green@FreeBSD.org `------------------------------' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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