Date: Sun, 23 Dec 2001 14:54:43 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.freebsd.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, silby@silby.com, bde@zeta.org.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sio sio.c Message-ID: <36691.1009148083@winston.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> of "Sat, 22 Dec 2001 22:45:25 PST." <200112230645.fBN6jPn00569@apollo.backplane.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Speaking as another core member, I have to say that you have a legitimate point here, Matt. First and foremost, no one developer should be allowed to take out an exclusive lock on something in the tree on a long-term basis. Sure, if someone's in the middle of a sweep then it's sort of analogous to the locks which CVS puts in the tree during a commit operation - understandable for the duration of the operation, but if they're left lying around for an extended period then it's an error and rm'ing the lock files is perfectly permissible. Things also got a little out of hand after this escallated, and others have already commented on this point so I won't belabor it, but I don't think that Bruce did the right thing at all in simply backing your commit out with *no* discussion and I think Warner's defense of his actions border on favoritism rather than "reasonable policy" - I can't and don't support that. Now that we've all beaten our chests over this I hope we can start looking for an acceptable solution which most benefits our users. This shouldn't be about holding territory, this should be about solving problems! - Jordan > Then I submit that Bruce has been deficient in his maintainership. If > he doesn't allow the change to go in and core isn't interesting in making > a decision on technical merits, then the only thing I can do is call for > a vote by the entire committer community, on the merits, as to whether > the change should be made. What else can I do? You've hog-tied me > and you don't seem to be interested in listening to any argument made > by anyone other then BDE. I think it is a totally inappropriate position > for a core member to take. > > -Matt > Matthew Dillon > <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36691.1009148083>