Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:09:28 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile Message-ID: <200103152109.f2FL9S925102@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:02:31 CST." <20010315150231.B362@elvis.mu.org> References: <20010315150231.B362@elvis.mu.org> <200103151033.f2FAX1q89921@freefall.freebsd.org> <200103151656.f2FGuF923193@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010315150231.B362@elvis.mu.org> Bill Fumerola writes: : On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 09:56:15AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: : > In message <200103151033.f2FAX1q89921@freefall.freebsd.org> Bill Fumerola writes: : > : remove the concept of a 'maintainer' of our make. there really isn't a : > : need for any one committer to hold an exclusive lock or serve as a filter : > : for this code. : > : > MAINTAINTER isn't an exclusive lock. : : No, but it can be used to assert one (see previous discussions re: vinum, isp, etc). Recent discussions tend to point out that MAINTAINER has gone badly awry and that asserting MAINTAINERship as anything like an exclusive lock should only be done in rare instances (new code, code being maintained out, complex code people have a history of breaking). Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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