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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 00:30:22 +0100
From:      Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>, Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org, brian@Awfulhak.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c 
Message-ID:  <200010032330.e93NUNs35249@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>  of "Tue, 03 Oct 2000 23:40:21 BST." <39DA6055.594B13E4@originative.co.uk> 

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> > If it's now part of your full-time hattism to worry about this then I
> > hope you'll start spending some number of hours each day in reviewing
> > each and every change which goes into -stable.  However many other
> 
> I think you're looking at it the wrong way around. The stable team
> wouldn't be putting in a lot of hours reviewing stable commits. Stable
> commits would only occur if the stable team did them i.e. no-one else
> would be allowed to commit to stable. The stable team would then monitor
> -current, noting commits that are bug fixes, and slating them for a MFC
> at a later date when it's felt they've had enough of a shakeout.

I don't think that'd be a good idea - it'd just give this ``stable 
team'' too much to do.  They wouldn't have a chance of identifying 
everything that's an MFC candidate.  IMHO it would be far more 
practical to have them review/commit/deny submissions from others 
instead.

> Paul Richards
> FreeBSD Services Ltd

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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org>                        <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
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