From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 2 17:33:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D55A1515C for ; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:33:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from semuta.feral.com (semuta [192.67.166.70]) by feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA01237; Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:33:37 -0700 Date: Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:33:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Greg Lehey Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH)) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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