Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:09:22 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: brian@Awfulhak.org (Brian Somers) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, ahasty@mindspring.com, dillon@apollo.backplane.com, crossd@cs.rpi.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, schimken@cs.rpi.edu Subject: Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12 Message-ID: <199906040209.VAA05099@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199906040145.CAA04373@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> from Brian Somers at "Jun 4, 99 02:45:56 am"
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> > It wasn't the "dark side" of core, it was the panic'ed and worried > > part of core that was seeing things happening without careful review. > > The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the > instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent. > The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do. > I was worried about the commit privs being removed, and Matt potentially giving up though. On a project where people's livelihoods are dependent, some kind of discipline is needed. In code as complex as the VM and VFS systems, it is good to require some kind of review... As I said before, I had lots of stuff in the queue, but was scared to commit it. It was critical to develop a testing infrastructure, and whether or not I am involved day-to-day, review and/or testing is very wise. (Perhaps it is more accurate to say that it is very unwise not to review and/or test code such as in the VM or VFS...) John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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