From owner-cvs-all Tue Feb 26 12: 2:13 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26ADE37B400; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 12:02:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id g1QK22dq083522; Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:02:02 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20020226193438.GL80761@elvis.mu.org> References: <20020226125029.B51363@locore.ca> <20020226193438.GL80761@elvis.mu.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:02:01 -0500 To: Alfred Perlstein , Julian Elischer From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c machdep.c mp_machdep.c mpapic.c swtch.s vm_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h pcb.h src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s clock.c icu_vector.s intr_machdep.c intr_machdep.h npx.c src/sys/kern ... Cc: Jake Burkholder , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.3 (www dot roaringpenguin dot com slash mimedefang) 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 At 11:34 AM -0800 2/26/02, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >I do think that we need to make this a bit more process driven for >fairness. > >How about from now on if _anyone_ raises an objection to changes >because "they have something better in a local tree", that person >will have one or two weeks to polish that code up and get it in the >tree, otherwise the other work goes in. Maybe not one or two weeks >but a firm deadline for the changes in progress to be put in. I think we (as a project) *must* do this, in the interest of fairness. The point is not whether "Matt Wins" or "JMB Wins", the point is how to run a project which has a few hundred developers. You can not run it with everyone having some big uber-commit off in their own little private world (or maybe a world with two or three other developers). You have to get code out where everyone can see it, and react to it. Commit it, and move on to the next thing. We are not talking about anyone's good intentions here, we are trying to develop a few million lines of code without driving each other crazy. Consider us "The Odd Couple", except that there is two hundred of us instead of just two. I am 100% certain that both JMB and Matt are trying their best to get the best possible result for the project. It's just that one is using a method which is more practical for a project of this size and interest-level. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message