From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 29 08:33:56 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA05738 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:33:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA05733 for ; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:33:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from harmony [10.0.0.6] by rover.village.org with esmtp (Exim 1.71 #1) id 106GaG-00066n-00; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:52 -0700 Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.1/8.8.3) with ESMTP id JAA66196; Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:57 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199901291615.JAA66196@harmony.village.org> To: Nate Williams Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 29 Jan 1999 08:30:31 MST." <199901291530.IAA06052@mt.sri.com> References: <199901291530.IAA06052@mt.sri.com> <199901290435.VAA62940@harmony.village.org> <6928.917597124@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 09:15:57 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <199901291530.IAA06052@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: : 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 Essentially what? I appreciate the work that bruce has done to make things more consistant. I think that we should listen to him when it comes to matters of style since he has earned, through long hours of hard work, the right to say something about style since he's been doing something about stlye for at least as long as I've been a comitter. When I venture into a new area (say man pages or make files), he ensures that things stay ordered and consistant accross the source base. He should continue to do so, if he so chooses, imho. Makes the source base much easier to deal with. Once a consensus is reached, I believe that bde will adjust to that new consensus. The trouble is that no matter what the standards are, people will inconsistantly apply them, and bde has very sharp eyes for that. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message