Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 17:26:18 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@unixdaemons.com> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.org>, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alfre's malloc changes: the next step Message-ID: <20030122012618.471A02A7EA@canning.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20030121201845.A74822@unixdaemons.com>
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Bosko Milekic wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2003 at 01:05:11AM +0000, Mark Murray wrote:
> > > In message <20030121.144243.52206100.imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" wr
ites
> > :
> > >
> > > >I think there'd be strong support for this.
> > >
> > > vote++;
> >
> > vote++;
> >
> > M
> > --
> > Mark Murray
> > iumop ap!sdn w,I idlaH
>
> I don't get it. What's the point of this "vote++" thing? Can you
> people state what your technical arguments are, for a change? Instead
> of arguing "this should have been done this way and this is not right
> and oh my G-d somebody call the fire department" why don't we sit back
> a little, take a few deep breaths, consider that OK, yes, the change
> should have been posted for review but it was not and now we have to
> decide on what the best approach is, based on TECHNICAL merit. Yes, I
> agree, it should have probably been given more of a review period but
> what's done is done so instead of backing out something that you may
> just end up recommitting anyway, tell us why you think it's
> technically wrong.
>
> I think that everyone ought to have the right to argue either case,
> but it has to be a technical discussion. Stop blindly urging a
> backout when all it may end up doing is bloating the repo even more
> than it already is.
With my cvs hat on, I firmly support this. Dont back this out until
an alternative course of action has been decided. Go from "here" to "there",
not "here" to "back to square 1" and then "there". Repository whiplash
serves nobody.
Cheers,
-Peter
--
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"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5
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