From owner-cvs-all Thu Mar 15 16:21:55 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [209.152.133.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADD3137B71A; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.11.3/8.11.1) id f2G0LkC52120; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:21:46 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Bill Fumerola Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile Message-ID: <20010315162146.A51975@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.org References: <200103151033.f2FAX1q89921@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010315135546.A50505@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010315175821.D362@elvis.mu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010315175821.D362@elvis.mu.org>; from billf@mu.org on Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:58:21PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 05:58:21PM -0600, Bill Fumerola wrote: > > This is PRECISELY the type of work that does not get done w/o a > > maintainer because it isn't sexy nor fun. > > So its a medal? Can I be Sr. MAINTAINER or does it go on to Lt. MAINTAINER? Sure, if you take on the responsibility of continuing to do the work in the future and process make(1) PRs. Looking at the /usr/src commit logs for he past 4 months, it doesn't look like you particularly spend much time committing. So I'm sorry, your position doesn't hold as much weight with me as others. > The work can be done with or without the shiny badge and the work isn't > hindered by someone else going in and fixing bugs. There is no reason > for a maintainer for make(1). Maintainership isn't just a medal. It is a covenant with the project to maintain and give care & feeding to something. A responsibility comes with it. If the maintainer wants to be consulted or part of, any changes to the maintained area; I don't see what is wrong with that. Perhaps you should take some time to understand why Will put a MAINTAINER on make(1). It seems a whole lot of people want anarchy where they can have a little fun, make a drive-by commit, and go off to the next thing of pleasure. I maintain that people that take on strong maintainership of a FreeBSD component give more care and feeding then the drive-by's, and deal with some of the lesser fun things in that area. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org) GNU is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message