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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2003 10:10:08 -0400
From:      Joseph Holland King <insanc@cc.gatech.edu>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TODO list?
Message-ID:  <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700
References:  <20030627231013.GA41033@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030627231805.GB410@nitro.dk> <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com>

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700, Terry Lambert had the gall to say:
> Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the
> PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat
> there forever.  All he'd need to do was verify that there was a
> problem that was being fixed, and the code didn't look like it
> would cause damage.  If it ends up causing damage anyway, the fix
> can always be backed out later.  Making send-pr actually result in
> code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could
> do for the project, and it would give him a chance to read and to
> understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed
> on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached.

heh, i must say that without a commit bit its almost impossible to get
any of the pr's closed, even ones that are five years old with a fix
attached. 

-- 
Joseph Holland King        
gte743n@mail.gatech.edu



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