Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 14:39:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: savcore dump names? Message-ID: <20020502143906.C40128@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3CD1AC8D.25458679@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:15:57PM -0700 References: <XFMail.20020502140229.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020502133256.A40128@dragon.nuxi.com> <3CD1AC8D.25458679@mindspring.com>
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On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:15:57PM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 02:02:29PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > So what happened to the request that savecore(8) go back to using > > > sensible, intuitive names instead of brain-damaged ones? > > > > The committer that took that feature away isn't interested in seeing > > things through to the end. > > > > Another reason we need an owner of each thing in the tree. > > So that if they get hit by a bus, we're screwed for all time? No Terry, a new "owner" would pop up. I know the strong down sides to what I said -- I also think people need to consider the strong downside with our anarchy. > Not to harp on you in particular, but your statement about > "isn't interested in seeing things through" is really > emotionally charged, and is exactly the wrong sort of thing. It is emotionally charged? It is simple fact. > I think the obvious thing to do is to wait a while for the > code to be completed, and then time out and back out the > changes, and let them be committed again later, only when they > are complete You don't seem quite up on the savecore(8) changes. Please go look at the logs -- we cannot simply back out rev 1.51. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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