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From: Tim Vanderhoek <tim@x22>
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To: "Pedro Giffuni S," <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
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Subject: Re: why bother submitting anything (via send-pr)
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On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Pedro Giffuni S, wrote:

> Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
> > 
> > It might help to Cc the original pr to the person who (should) be
> > responsible.  Any reason for a follow-up can also remind someone
> > of the pr, too.  :-)
>
> It is not always clear who is responsible, specially if you are not a
> developer..:-(.

CVS logs are publicly available and show who the last person to
touch a given piece of code is.  By the Law of CyberSpace, the
last person to touch a piece of code is responsible.  :-)

Of course, that doesn't mean they _are_ responsible...  It just
means they _should be_...  ;-)


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