From owner-freebsd-current Wed Oct 23 17:26:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA22806 for current-outgoing; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA22801 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:26:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA10925; Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:24:18 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199610240024.RAA10925@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Possibility? To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 17:24:18 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199610232139.XAA28481@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Oct 23, 96 11:39:28 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > But where's the relation of this to your claim that ``the core team'' > might be responsible to incorporate other BSD code bases (where the > context of the original message implied OpenBSD, in this case)? 4.4-Lite2 is an "other BSD code base", just as OpenBSD is an "other BSD code base". > > I mean, otherwise there would be no reason for not integrating patches, > > even if they were not fully understood by some core team member or other? > > This is not a problem of the core team, it's merely a problem of that > none of the existing _committers_ seems to fully understand your > patches. You're confusing things: it requires a committer to > integrate something, there are currently 66 of them available. It > doesn't necessarily require a core team member for doing this (though > incidentally ;), all the core team member also happen to be > committers). I was not using my own patches as the straw amn here; I was pointing out the apparent dichotomy between what you say and what you do. The dichotomy remains, even if you divorce it from specific examples (which I tried to do). You asked why I don't submit patches relative to a publically available source base that I am not the only qualified person to examine. I answered your question, and pointed out the dichotomy which appeared to be enabling you to ask it (and in light of which, it was a silly question for you to ask). Don't accuse me of creating the dichotomy: I only observed and noted it as the result of your own question. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.