Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 09:14:06 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@freebsd.org>, Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov>, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>, cvs-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/mt mt.1 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905050913000.411-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9905041522070.14744-100000@feral.com>
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > 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. Unless you happen to know that the person at the other end of the email is in the same timezone (and awake), you should wait 12hrs for a reply at least... -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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