Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 11:18:52 -0800 From: Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jaakko Heinonen <jh@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r217090 - head/etc Message-ID: <4D27671C.5070907@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20110107190037.GA1501@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi> References: <201101071059.p07AxN1F049134@svn.freebsd.org> <4D27593A.8050103@FreeBSD.org> <20110107190037.GA1501@a91-153-123-205.elisa-laajakaista.fi>
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On 01/07/2011 11:00, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2011-01-07, Doug Barton wrote:
>> If by silence you mean that there was no comment on the PR in the future
>> please don't take that as tacit approval. There are a non-trivial number
>> of PRs assigned to -rc, and historically the practice has been not to
>> comment on them until someone indicates that they actually plan to do
>> something about it.
>>
>> In the future it would be great if you could send a note to the list
>> indicating that you plan to make a change, and then wait say 2 or 3
>> non-{weekend|holiday} days for feedback.
>
> I mean this message:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-December/002142.html
>
> I waited>2 weeks for comments and then committed the patch. Admittedly
> I posted the patch as a bug follow-up but I made sure that the message
> ended up to freebsd-rc list.
Yeah, that's Ok, and I should have mentioned that this change is fine.
My point more generally is that regular e-mail about proposed changes is
more likely to get useful attention and feedback.
Doug
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