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Date:      Sat, 06 Oct 2007 21:53:06 +0200
From:      =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
To:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
Cc:        Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files kern.pre.mk src/sys/dev/em	LICENSE e1000_80003es2lan.c e1000_80003es2lan.h e1000_82540.c	e1000_82541.c e1000_82541.h e1000_82542.c e1000_82543.c	e1000_82543.h e1000_82571.c e1000_82571.h e1000_82575.c ...
Message-ID:  <86odfcvx3x.fsf@ds4.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <47079A5C.3090109@samsco.org> (Scott Long's message of "Sat\, 06 Oct 2007 08\:23\:24 -0600")
References:  <200710052249.l95Mn9Nb071852@repoman.freebsd.org> <20071005231538.GA24016@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <2a41acea0710051705l217224b6vc705dc6139b94e3b@mail.gmail.com> <20071006004634.GA24962@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <47073AF5.1010109@samsco.org> <86d4vspk8j.fsf@ds4.des.no> <47079A5C.3090109@samsco.org>

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Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> writes:
> > We used to have a principle that commit bits were granted to individuals
> > on their individual merit, not simply because they represented a vendor
> > and were paid to work on drivers for that vendor's hardware.
> Are you implying that Jack has no merit?  That's an unfortunate
> assertion.  What evidence do you have to support that?

It is you who implied rather strongly that Jack is neither more nor less
than an Intel representative.  You spoke of "lecturing a vendor" when
all Erik did was point out or own rules to a *committer*.

> > We also used to have a principle that changes should be tested
> > before being committed, especially to -STABLE.
> I guess you missed that part where Jack said that the changes had
> undergone extensive testing.

I guess you missed the part where his commit broke the tinderbox,
because he clearly did not test the DEVICE_POLLING case.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no



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