From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 28 09:45:33 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC67937B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net (adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.161.78.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 37B7243F75 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:45:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oremanj@adsl-64-161-78-226.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net) Received: (qmail 68748 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Jun 2003 16:48:19 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:48:19 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman To: Joseph Holland King Message-ID: <20030628164819.GA68703@webserver.get-linux.org> References: <20030627231013.GA41033@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030627231805.GB410@nitro.dk> <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com> <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TODO list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:45:34 -0000 On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:10:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, Joseph Holland King wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700, Terry Lambert had the gall to say: > > Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the > > PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat > > there forever. All he'd need to do was verify that there was a > > problem that was being fixed, and the code didn't look like it > > would cause damage. If it ends up causing damage anyway, the fix > > can always be backed out later. Making send-pr actually result in > > code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could > > do for the project, and it would give him a chance to read and to > > understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed > > on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached. > > heh, i must say that without a commit bit its almost impossible to get > any of the pr's closed, even ones that are five years old with a fix > attached. Because you'll send another PR about the PR! :-) -- Josh > > -- > Joseph Holland King > gte743n@mail.gatech.edu > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"