Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:40:37 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Maintainer yet again (was: cvs commit: src/bin/dd dd.1) Message-ID: <20000224104037.S2912@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002230657240.546-100000@green.dyndns.org> References: <20000223132331.B78315@relay.ucb.crimea.ua> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002230657240.546-100000@green.dyndns.org>
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On Wednesday, 23 February 2000 at 7:00:48 -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 05:53:46AM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: >>> >>> Don't worry about it :) Basically, for me at least, what it means is >>> that I'm doing the caretaking for it. If there are problems, PRss, etc., >>> then I'm the right person to go to for review. If it's something small, >>> you can usually just use your judgement and do it. >>> >> A maintainer could have some work-in-progress uncommitted, and such >> a small change, even in the manual page, would complicate his work. >> It is a good idea to contact the maintainer first. > > I'm only speaking for myself here. If I have a "work in progress" there > is only an extremely small chance that anyone else will make something > conflict with it in that timeframe. In fact, I do have a work in progress > with dd(1) right now, and the manpage change didn't mess it up at all. > It's always a good idea to check with the maintainer for something, but > speaking for myself alone, I simply don't have a problem with the manual > pages are cleaned up. It seems that a lot of people are reluctant to contact the maintainer. This thread has gone to some lengths to find reasons not to do so. Why? Admittedly, the chances of conflict are relatively low, but there are other good reasons for a review by somebody who should know the product well. OK, there's the danger of timeout, but that shouldn't really be an issue. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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