From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 22 09:25:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA12774 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:25:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA12766 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:25:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id JAA27205; Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:24:29 -0800 (PST) To: Nate Williams cc: Terry Lambert , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More breakage in -current as a result of header frobbing. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 22 Feb 1998 07:40:22 MST." <199802221440.HAA24031@mt.sri.com> Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:24:29 -0800 Message-ID: <27201.888168269@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD's problem is that everyone has 'broken' the tree enough times > that no-one is willing to brandish the 'big stick' to whack people for > making bad commits. If you've got no negative feedback, then you've got > no reason to test changes. More to the point, it's far more damaging to alienate and potentially lose an existing volunteer than it is to have the tree occasionally broken, as much as I might whine about that from time to time. We have to consider who we are and how we got here - this isn't commercial software development, as much as we might sometimes try to emulate it. :-) Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message