Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:43:18 -0500 From: Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: State of the Union Report (backout request department) Message-ID: <20030131214318.E69408@espresso.q9media.com> In-Reply-To: <200301311926.12431.linimon@lonesome.com>; from linimon@lonesome.com on Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 07:26:12PM -0600 References: <200301311926.12431.linimon@lonesome.com>
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Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com> writes: > (This is just a view from the sidelines; I generally do ports hacking > and not kernel hacking, and thus my views might not carry much > weight, but here goes anyways). > > One of the more interesting features of the FreeBSD development > model seems to me to be the ability for people to request controversial > CVS commits to be backed out pending further technical discussion. > IMHO this seems like a wise (albeit nonintuitive) plan to avoid > meta-discussions about what should and should not have been > committed by whom and reviewed by whom (and so on and so forth). > > But recently (especially since the 5.0 release) the backout request > mechanism seems to have fallen on hard times. Without too much > difficulty, I was able to find 5 separate backout requests in this > year's archive of cvs-all alone which were not quickly honored. > (I'm not counting an ignored request for which the underlying > change was apparently security-related). I'm not sure, but there > may have been others, possibly on freebsd-current. The archives might not be telling the whole story. A lot of times these things get handled behind closed doors, whether private e-mail or developer-only lists. Thankfully though, most conflicts *do* get resolved. :) Best regards, Mike Barcroft To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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