Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:05:55 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: nate@FreeBSD.ORG, committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc Makefile Message-ID: <199802122205.OAA26416@austin.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:54:22 MST." <199802120554.WAA02949@mt.sri.com>
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> I was going to wait 24 hours if I *didn't* get comments on it. I > got a couple of favorable comments from some highly respected folks, > so I went ahead and did it. Well, it's a done deal and I don't want to make too big of a stink about it. But in the future I would like to see more like a 72 hour advance notice of changes like this. (That's our rule of thumb within the core team.) I personally would have asked you to hold off just a bit if I had had the chance. Also, I would have liked to have heard Peter's opinion on it first, since he's sort of the de facto keeper of the libc version numbers. I don't so much question that it had to be done; I just would have liked an opportunity for myself and others to influence the timing of it. The thing that's special about a library version number bump is that it's (a) irreversible, and (b) only allowed once per release cycle. Again, I don't want this to come out like some kind of Dump on Nate. I just would like it to be handled differently in the future. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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