Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 23:44:39 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How long a wait? Message-ID: <199808070644.XAA14097@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 07 Aug 1998 00:24:52 EDT." <XFMail.980807002452.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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>I have a question and I hope this is the right list.. How long is the normal >turn around for a response to a non-critical PR? A friend of mine who runs an >ISP submitted a PR (6269) that turns on an extra option for AMD K5 and K6 >CPU's. He says that it gave his AMD-based webserver a whopping 15% performance >increase! He submitted it on Apr 10 of this year (almost 4 months ago) and no >one has bothered to even reply to it or anything. As a result, he's somewhat >disappointed and not to eager to contribute code in the future as he just >thinks he'll get blown off. Of the programmers that I actually know >personally, he's the best, and I'd hate for him to not make any further >contributions. So, how are PR patches normally handled? Do you wait for >enough people to try it out and respond saying it works? I'm just curious, and >I wouldn't mind FreeBSD having a patch committed that increases performance by >15% on some machines. Please cc me in replies as I'm not subscribed to >questions, thanks. I just looked at the patch. Other than some KNF style bugs, it seems okay. I don't have any AMD K5/K6 machines, however, so I can't test it and won't be committing it. If it could get wider circulation - perhaps by posting a note to hackers asking for testers, then I think there would be less hesitation in getting it committed. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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