From owner-cvs-all Tue Jul 17 10:56:22 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8DEF37B403; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 10:56:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA15365; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:56:02 +1000 Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 03:53:42 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: John Baldwin , Dima Dorfman , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 17 Jul 2001, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 5:47 PM +1000 7/17/01, Bruce Evans wrote: > >On Mon, 16 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: > > > It's (realtively) small, so why not move it to contrib/ to make > > > this more obvious? src/gnu is already somewhat off in its own > > > namespace and is already treated as contrib stuff, however, how > > > are committers supposed to know what "magical" parts of > > > src/usr.s?bin/ are actually 3rd party? > > > >By reading the cvs history. > ... > If we're not going to move zic into /usr/contrib, then maybe > we could at least add a '/* NOTE */' to the README and the > start of zic.c noting it's "contrib" status. I just looked > at the CVS log for zic.c, for instance, and I must admit that > nothing really jumped out at me saying "DON'T MODIFY THIS!". > > Yes, I see the bit about "merged changes from vendor branch", > but I suspect that would not wave any red flag at me if I > were just looking to modify this source. Just having a vendor branch for a non-dead vendor should wave a flag. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message