Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 23:57:31 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@calcaphon.com> To: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libfetch ftp.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0006202353431.34122-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200006201946.UAA65878@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
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The reason for this is simply that if people commit stuff to your part of the tree without the maintainer's agreement you might interfere wiuth the work he is doing. I've had this in the past and it gives maintainers headaches and wastes their time, not mentioning the possibility of trampling over subtle fixes (Hi, Bill!). Certainly if the code is actively maintained, as in has been touched within a reasonable period. Apart from that is it the maintainer who gets questions if things ain't work or are broken. And if you haven't made that particular change time again flies out the window in order to get up to speed with things and fix it. Nick > > > Then you should not have committed it to the FreeBSD CVS tree, which > > > simply does not work that way. > > > > I am sure that David O'Brien, Mark Murray, Brian Somers, Hellmut > > Michaelis, Greg Lehey and everybody else who claims (or have recently > > claimed) exclusive access to some portion of the source tree will be > > quite surprised to learn this. > > I actually find it quite refreshing. > > >From ppp/Makefile's log: > ---------------------------- > revision 1.69 > date: 2000/01/29 11:08:00; author: brian; state: Exp; lines: +1 -3 > Remove MAINTAINER= > > I don't claim to own the code and certainly don't want to discourage > people from fixing or updating it. > > [I know it's the 29th, but the FREEZE hasn't yet been posted to committers] > ---------------------------- > > > In case you hadn't noticed, libfetch is work in progress, which should > > be grounds enough alone for other committers to keep off, or at least > > explicitly ask for permission to commit, which Wes didn't. > > I don't want to take sides because I realise that people can become > quite attached to code that they've put a lot of time into, but to be > fair to Wes, I believe most committers will treat silence as > approval. I know I do, and sometimes it's the only way to make > something happen. > > > DES > > -- > > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no > > -- > Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> > <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! > > > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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