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Date:      Sat, 28 Jun 2003 20:27:25 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To:        Joseph Holland King <insanc@cc.gatech.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: TODO list?
Message-ID:  <20030628202647.D71322@news1.macomnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu>
References:  <20030627231013.GA41033@webserver.get-linux.org> <20030627231805.GB410@nitro.dk> <3EFD4AF6.F8F471D6@mindspring.com> <20030628101008.A27124@myrna.cc.gatech.edu>

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, 10:10-0400, Joseph Holland King wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700, Terry Lambert had the gall to say:
> > Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the
> > PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat
> > there forever.  All he'd need to do was verify that there was a
> > problem that was being fixed, and the code didn't look like it
> > would cause damage.  If it ends up causing damage anyway, the fix
> > can always be backed out later.  Making send-pr actually result in
> > code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could
> > do for the project, and it would give him a chance to read and to
> > understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed
> > on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached.
>
> heh, i must say that without a commit bit its almost impossible to get
> any of the pr's closed, even ones that are five years old with a fix
> attached.

for instance?

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org



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