From owner-cvs-all Wed Dec 9 19:35:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19387 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:35:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA19382 for ; Wed, 9 Dec 1998 19:35:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA29359; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 04:35:11 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA28665; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 04:35:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981210043511.S15330@follo.net> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 04:35:11 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Greg Lehey , "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Kevin Van Maren , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Swat teams (was: problem reports) References: <19981210123002.K12688@freebie.lemis.com> <28264.913255536@zippy.cdrom.com> <19981210124903.N12688@freebie.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981210124903.N12688@freebie.lemis.com>; from Greg Lehey on Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:49:03PM +1030 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, Dec 10, 1998 at 12:49:03PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > so we stopped that, but I haven't exactly seen anything better arise > > in place of that arrangement yet. I can keep an eye on it until the > > cows come home and die of old age, but what's that supposed to > > accomplish most of the time? :-) > > OK, I've been through this stuff dozens of times in a different life. > When I have more time I'll come up with a suggestion for a policy, > *if* at least 5 people reply now and say they think this would be a > good idea. I'm in favour of having more of a formal policy for how the PRs are to be handled. As it is, they have a bad tendency to just stay there rotting, because nobody dare to commit them, especially for complicated patches. This is a sure-fire way to loose people that could have become valuable contributors. So - count me among the replies :-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message