From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 14 16:46:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42F3D37B401 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:46:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6327643EB2 for ; Sat, 14 Dec 2002 16:46:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a031.otenet.gr [212.205.215.31]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBF0k4EP016153; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:05 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBF0k3H5005645; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:04 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gBF0k3k6005644; Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:03 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Wes Peters , Terry Lambert , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved? Message-ID: <20021215004602.GB5523@gothmog.gr> References: <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr> <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021215002117.GB5083@gothmog.gr> <20021215003803.GA13126@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021215003803.GA13126@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2002-12-14 16:38, David Schultz wrote: > Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas : > > Email is easier to track though. And measures *can* be taken. > > Anyway, I'm not entirely against moderation for PRs submitted through > > email too. Right now, this is not one of my problems though. My most > > serious concern is implementing something that makes moderation > > possible, and not choosing whether it be used for email only or web > > only or both. > > Assuming that all committers can approve PRs, the delay ought to > be a few hours at best, and that's acceptable. What's not > acceptable is to use the feature as a quality control mechanism, > rather than as an abuse-control mechanism. Otherwise, you would > be making the system closed, and at that point we might as well be > writing the next version of Solaris or Windows. That's optimistic enough, but seeing how misfiled PRs pile up at times, I don't really expect "all committers" to work on this. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message