Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:24:52 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: How long a wait? Message-ID: <XFMail.980807002452.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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I have a question and I hope this is the right list.. How long is the normal turn around for a response to a non-critical PR? A friend of mine who runs an ISP submitted a PR (6269) that turns on an extra option for AMD K5 and K6 CPU's. He says that it gave his AMD-based webserver a whopping 15% performance increase! He submitted it on Apr 10 of this year (almost 4 months ago) and no one has bothered to even reply to it or anything. As a result, he's somewhat disappointed and not to eager to contribute code in the future as he just thinks he'll get blown off. Of the programmers that I actually know personally, he's the best, and I'd hate for him to not make any further contributions. So, how are PR patches normally handled? Do you wait for enough people to try it out and respond saying it works? I'm just curious, and I wouldn't mind FreeBSD having a patch committed that increases performance by 15% on some machines. Please cc me in replies as I'm not subscribed to questions, thanks. John Baldwin -- jobaldwi@vt.edu -- jbaldwin@freedomnet.com -- ---- http://www.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ ---- "I waited for the Lord on high/I waited and He heard my cry." - Petra To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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