Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:52:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: reg@shale.csir.co.za, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, imp@village.org, peter@netplex.com.au, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources Message-ID: <199907131952.MAA72392@bubba.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <199907130046.RAA02816@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 12, 99 05:46:43 pm"
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Mike Smith writes: > I'm not quite sure why the established committers are reacting so > poorly these days to quite trivial blunders by new arrivals, nor how Simple.. more committers means higher likelihood that some committer will complain about any given blunder :-) Seriously though, lots of things can be "attributed" to the growth of the FreeBSD user and developer base, eg: - Break the build? Now there are N times as many people are affected. - Checkin a blunder? Now there are N times as many watchful eyes. - Propose a radically new architecture for something new in -current? Now there are N times too many people who have some sort of vested interest in the way it currently works (or doesn't). - Step on someone's toes? Now there are N times as many people to witness it, increasing the embarrassment/stubbornnes factor. Etc, etc. -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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