From owner-freebsd-current Mon Sep 23 17:49:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE27937B401 for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-send.myrealbox.com (smtp-send.myrealbox.com [192.108.102.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87FDE43E4A for ; Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wa1ter@hotmail.com) Received: from hotmail.com wa1ter@smtp-send.myrealbox.com [67.119.36.247] by smtp-send.myrealbox.com with NetMail SMTP Agent $Revision: 3.12 $ on Novell NetWare via secured & encrypted transport (TLS); Mon, 23 Sep 2002 18:49:11 -0600 Message-ID: <3D8FB649.8050703@hotmail.com> Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:48:09 -0700 From: walt Organization: none User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020921 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Question for committers. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG May I ask a naïve question, please? World has been broken at libncurses for three days. There have been dozens of commits to the -CURRENT tree during that same three days. How do you committers to -CURRENT keep working when userland is broken? How can you judge the impact of all your changes when you are not rebuilding the system every day? Please don't interpret this question as criticism--none is intended. I'm puzzled and I'd like to understand this process better, maybe even contribute to it someday when I know more. Thanks. BTW, what does MFC mean? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message