From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jun 28 09:27:40 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523C337B401 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.macomnet.ru (relay.macomnet.ru [195.128.64.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4B5744027 for ; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from maxim@macomnet.ru) Received: from news1.macomnet.ru (news1.macomnet.ru [195.128.64.14]) by relay.macomnet.ru (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h5SGRPt8326854; Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:27:25 +0400 (MSD) Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:27:25 +0400 (MSD) From: Maxim Konovalov To: Joseph Holland King In-Reply-To: <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> Message-ID: <20030628202647.D71322@news1.macomnet.ru> References: <20030627231013.GA41033@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030627231805.GB410@nitro.dk> <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com> <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: TODO list? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:27:40 -0000 On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, 10:10-0400, Joseph Holland King wrote: > 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. for instance? -- Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org