From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 07:30:46 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27571 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:30:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27566 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 07:30:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA26107; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:30:33 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA06052; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:30:31 -0700 Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:30:31 -0700 Message-Id: <199901291530.IAA06052@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Warner Losh , Julian Elischer , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <6928.917597124@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199901290435.VAA62940@harmony.village.org> <6928.917597124@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Unless things have changed a lot, bde counts 50x most people. This > > isn't a democracy. > > It may not be a democracy, but it's also not a monarchy. :-) ... > Bruce only gets "50x the vote" on occasion by generally being the only > one to comment at all. Bruce should get 50X the vote since he's the only one willing to enforce the rules. Without Bruce the code would become inconsistant. By over-ruling we are essentially Most of the commits made by other developers (except a few, David being one of the exceptions) do not follow Style anyway, and at least Bruce attempts to keep them consistant with the rest of the tree. My fear is that we'll end up with '?*+'BSD now. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message