From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 15 12:34:40 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay1.yahoo.com (mail-relay1.yahoo.com [216.145.48.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70CEC37B413 for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from FreeBSD.org (12-234-90-219.client.attbi.com [12.234.90.219]) by mail-relay1.yahoo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F1128B5BF; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3D0B96CD.CA45F33F@FreeBSD.org> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:34:37 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M. Warner Losh" Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Idea: New file called CONTRIB References: <20020615.131103.106033411.imp@village.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "M. Warner Losh" wrote: > > OK. There are a number of programs in the tree that people outside of > the project are trying to keep in sync. They typically are on > src/contrib or src/sys/contrib. However, there are a few that are in > the main tree, especially KAME related network config stuff (and > others). I'm thinking that if there's someone that wants to be > notified/consulted on the changes so as to better sync an external > repository, then maybe having a file called CONTRIB in these > directories might not be a bad idea. > > Note: This isn't a maintainer, per se, but rather an indication that > the code (eg, .c and .h files) shouldn't be committed to w/o some > thought. This sounds like a back door out of the MAINTAINER controversy. :) We already have the notion of, "I'd like to know if you plan to make changes to this file" in the current /usr/src/MAINTAINERS, so rather than further muddy the water I'd like to give that a few more months to see if it works. One of the problems of this medium is that people think because we have (relatively) instant communication, we should have instant solutions to problems as well. That's hardly ever true, especially where humans are concerned. Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message