Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:33:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH)) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907021731310.356-100000@semuta.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9907021710530.356-100000@semuta.feral.com>
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Let me add to this: > opinion: > > If it's really blocking folks because things don't compile, it is always > acceptable to do what you need to do- the tree should always compile even > if -current. If the system doesn't boot because of change, then that's an > obvious one too. If things work differently or not as well, but things > are more or less working, it's not an emergency, so leave it for the > author to fix.... ...always modulo a short delay (call it a couple of hours) after reporting the problem... after all, you don't *know* that the update isn't finished and that other things are coming down the pipe... but a couple of hours leaves really the most reasonable time for an integration to complete and the author to have had lunch in between. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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