From owner-cvs-all Tue May 4 15:27: 7 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4B9D14C86; Tue, 4 May 1999 15:25:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from feral.com (mjacob@feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA14747; Tue, 4 May 1999 15:25:53 -0700 Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:25:53 -0700 (PWT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Eivind Eklund Cc: Guy Helmer , "Kenneth D. Merry" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/mt mt.1 In-Reply-To: <19990504232121.C49159@bitbox.follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 12:11:36PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > To follow up on this for the rest of CVS committers- What I see a lot of > > in FreeBSD commits is changes w/o checking with nominal last authors of > > code (and man pages are code). If it isn't that hard to do, can we please > > check with each other- even on trivial things- it's not *that* much extra > > email. > > The problem isn't the amount of e-mail you have to send out. The > problem is that a lot of people don't bother/remember to reply, which > means you have to keep track of a million changes (with PR numbers etc > if applicable) over a period of time, instead of being able to handle > the case at once. You can't even rely on e-mail on the subject coming > back as a way of finding out when to handle it. Send the email. Wait a reasonable period of time (fudge factor- 10 line change == 10 minute, 100 line change == 100 minutes, 1000 line change == overnight) and then make the change. The point here is to allow a nominal maintainer a look- if they're not paying attention, that's not your fault. Increasing useful communications is good. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message