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Date:      Tue, 26 Feb 2002 15:02:01 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, Matt Dillon <dillon@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 exception.s genassym.c machdep.c mp_machdep.c mpapic.c swtch.s vm_machdep.c src/sys/i386/include cpufunc.h pcb.h src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s clock.c icu_vector.s intr_machdep.c intr_machdep.h npx.c src/sys/kern ...
Message-ID:  <p05101405b8a19884061e@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20020226193438.GL80761@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20020226125029.B51363@locore.ca> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0202261108180.94891-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020226193438.GL80761@elvis.mu.org>

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At 11:34 AM -0800 2/26/02, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>I do think that we need to make this a bit more process driven for
>fairness.
>
>How about from now on if _anyone_ raises an objection to changes
>because "they have something better in a local tree", that person
>will have one or two weeks to polish that code up and get it in the
>tree, otherwise the other work goes in.  Maybe not one or two weeks
>but a firm deadline for the changes in progress to be put in.

I think we (as a project) *must* do this, in the interest of
fairness.  The point is not whether "Matt Wins" or "JMB Wins",
the point is how to run a project which has a few hundred
developers.  You can not run it with everyone having some big
uber-commit off in their own little private world (or maybe a
world with two or three other developers).  You have to get
code out where everyone can see it, and react to it.  Commit
it, and move on to the next thing.

We are not talking about anyone's good intentions here, we are
trying to develop a few million lines of code without driving
each other crazy.  Consider us "The Odd Couple", except that
there is two hundred of us instead of just two.  I am 100%
certain that both JMB and Matt are trying their best to get the
best possible result for the project.  It's just that one is
using a method which is more practical for a project of this
size and interest-level.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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