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From: Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/devel/linux-devel - Imported sources
In-Reply-To: <199907130046.RAA02816@dingo.cdrom.com> from Mike Smith at "Jul 12, 99 05:46:43 pm"
To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
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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

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