From owner-cvs-all Sun Dec 27 22:24:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA27949 for cvs-all-outgoing; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:24:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA27944 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:24:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA24322; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:24:38 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id XAA23485; Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:24:37 -0700 Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 23:24:37 -0700 Message-Id: <199812280624.XAA23485@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: Warner Losh , committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The recent fracas involving danes, war axes and wounded developers In-Reply-To: <14249.914821086@zippy.cdrom.com> References: <199812280444.VAA18298@harmony.village.org> <14249.914821086@zippy.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > ... is that it be done > directly by original author/committer of the bits (and not by any > arbitrary 3rd party) unless, and only unless, a *unanimous* core team > vote for its removal is made .... > the future and also it fits nicely with dictum that "a man should > always shoot his own dog" This is unfortunately a little too close to home, as I just had to put my dog down, but I agree with it. As has been true from the very beginning of the project, the 'committer' is responsible for the code in the tree. However, if the committer leaves the project or 'gives up' responsibility of the code and no-one jumps in to take responsibility of it, then it's fair game to let the Dane's and their axes at it. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message