Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 01:02:35 +0000 (GMT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org, d@delphij.net, Kip Macy <kmacy@FreeBSD.org>, Kip Macy <kip.macy@gmail.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files src/sys/netinet tcp_ofld.c tcp_ofld.h tcp_var.h toedev.h src/sys/sys socket.h Message-ID: <20071214005643.R86532@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <4761CDBA.9010906@samsco.org> References: <200712122021.lBCKLdvt045540@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071213223319.E81630@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> <4761BB7C.3010907@elischer.org> <b1fa29170712131605n106236bbvee862fe2d560bf0c@mail.gmail.com> <4761CB3F.3030905@delphij.net> <4761CDBA.9010906@samsco.org>
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007, Scott Long wrote: > This is a completely awesome demonstration of the proverbial bikeshed. I > only wish that, someday, an important subsystem that I spend months/years > working on will be judged by the names and prefixes that I used in it. I > can barely wait. An alternative viewpoint would be that, after a year of fairly catastrophic TCP bugs resulting from a lack of adequate review and testing of TCP changes, a lot of people are keeping a close eye on the TCP stack. Let's not discourage that just yet. I'd like to see all significant changes to TCP discussed on public mailing lists well before they are committed -- at that point, someone saying "actually, I'd name the files a bit differently" is a lot easier to deal with than, say, immediately after they are committed. This needs to be communally owned and maintained code, or in two years time we'll find ourselves in the same position: architectural well-meant changes that are mostly right, but with no review of the details leading to the inevitable failures. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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