From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 28 23:35:19 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from green.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEDD115106; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 23:35:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by green.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA21523; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 02:35:02 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from green@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: green.dyndns.org: green owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 02:35:02 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Fundakowski Feldman X-Sender: green@green.dyndns.org To: Greg Lehey Cc: Garrett Wollman , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Philippe Charnier , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/inetd inetd.8 inetd.c In-Reply-To: <20000129131302.Z583@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Friday, 28 January 2000 at 12:12:54 -0500, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > < 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