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Date:      Thu, 14 Feb 2019 15:00:27 +0000
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@lonesome.com>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org
Cc:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-stable-12@freebsd.org, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@freebsd.org>, Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r344051 - in stable/12/sbin: newfs tunefs
Message-ID:  <20190214150027.GB10138@lonesome.com>
In-Reply-To: <201902121631.x1CGVqWE076720@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 08:31:52AM -0800, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> If all of our process was better documented and laid down
> we would have less of this type of discussion on a much less
> frequent basis.

And much more discussion about how the process is over-specified,
onerous, doesn't take care of every edge case, and so forth.

I speak from personal knowledge of trying to deal with this during my
several years on portmgr@.

IMVVHO rules-lawyering is toxic to a volunteer project.  It was enough
to cause me to walk away from what I had taken on.

mcl



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