Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:33:47 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@psinet.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mdoc police and MAINTAINER (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ffsinfo ffsinfo.8 src/sbin/init init.8 src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8) Message-ID: <20001221143347.F53393@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200012210355.UAA13639@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:55:06PM -0700 References: <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> <20001221121433.B52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200012200508.eBK58gS47238@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001220095935.E87094@sunbay.com> <200012181452.eBIEqH000902@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001219155039E.horikawa@psinet.com> <20001220085916.A87094@sunbay.com> <200012191536.eBJFamr37746@freefall.freebsd.org> <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> <200012210355.UAA13639@harmony.village.org>
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On Wednesday, 20 December 2000 at 20:55:06 -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes: >> In message <20001221121433.B52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes: >>> I didn't see them. I read my hundreds of commit messages every day, >>> but especially in the very big, global ones, I sometimes miss >>> something. You'll recall that I warned of exactly this possibility >>> the last time you violated the MAINTAINER bit on ffsinfo. >> >> cvs update is supposed to prevent this. MAINTAINER is *NOT* an >> exclusive lock. > > Besides, I don't see a MAINTAINER flag on vinum at all. egrep > MAINTAIN in both src/sys/dev/vinum and src/sys/modules/vinum come up > empty. In the case of ffsinfo one might have argued that Ruslan might > have done something wrong as there was a MAINTAINER flag there. That was my argument. > Here, there's no MAINTAINER so Ruslan's question about why you > backed out his change is valid. I answered that question. I keep a separate tree for Vinum (so technically, I suppose it's a vendor branch or some such). I make changes to that tree, and occasionally I get out of sync. In this case, it happened to DES as well, but he didn't make as much noise. Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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