From owner-cvs-all Mon Mar 12 4:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from info.iet.unipi.it (info.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8675837B71A; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 04:26:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from luigi@info.iet.unipi.it) Received: (from luigi@localhost) by info.iet.unipi.it (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA89585; Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:26:28 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from luigi) From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <200103121226.NAA89585@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c] In-Reply-To: <52176.984399203@critter> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Mar 12, 2001 01:13:23 pm" To: Poul-Henning Kamp Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:26:27 +0100 (CET) Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , Josef Karthauser , Ian Dowse , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > For instance, anybody with just a moderately senior kernel hacker > were able to predict that diffs between 4.x and 5.x would be a > total wreck for most people. > > I think the mistake was to try to do "the normal -current/-stable > thing" despite the fact that we knew it would break down. unfortunately the above contrasts with the Rules (committer's guidelines) and it is perfectly understandable that new committers (or old ones who moved from userland to kernel recently) try to play safe and strictly follow the Rules to avoid making mistakes (or being publicly flamed -- though it seems to happen more rarely these days, fortunately). cheers luigi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message