From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Jun 15 14:21:36 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFB7837B416; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 14:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g5FLLUY24922; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5FLLSG58980; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:21:29 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 15:20:46 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020615.152046.76963466.imp@village.org> To: tlambert2@mindspring.com Cc: DougB@FreeBSD.org, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Idea: New file called CONTRIB From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <3D0BA570.D7F58CAD@mindspring.com> References: <3D0B96CD.CA45F33F@FreeBSD.org> <20020615.142321.38689858.imp@village.org> <3D0BA570.D7F58CAD@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 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 In message: <3D0BA570.D7F58CAD@mindspring.com> Terry Lambert writes: : "M. Warner Losh" wrote: : > This is different than a Maintainer. This is a bigger sign that says : > "well, in an ideal world, this would be in contrib, but for whatever : > reason it isn't. : : "And I'm too lazy to move it there." BS Terry. I resent that remark. : > Treat it like contrib however. Thanks." : : This is a lot like saying "here is the right answer, just in case : you are interested in right answers". : : To me, it looks like a method of condoning people arguing in the : source repository about whether or not something belongs in contrib. Do you have something useful to contribute, or just carping? The reason for it is to make sure that we properly document what is grandfathered so people know. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message