Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:49:58 -0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/make Makefile Message-ID: <200103160049.f2G0nwh89486@mobile.wemm.org> In-Reply-To: <20010315174252.C362@elvis.mu.org>
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Bill Fumerola wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2001 at 02:10:34PM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > > > And where did Will try to do this over make that prompted you to do this? > > I didn't say that Will tried to do this, I said thats one of the things > that MAINTAINER traditionally meant and that it didn't apply to make(1). > > The commit had nothing to do with Will, it had everything to do with > the fact that make(1) doesn't need a maintainer. > > On a side note, if it did have a maintainer, I'd like it to be one that > tries to build a kernel, world, and a module or two with every (even > seemingly insignificant) change. The original intent of MAINTAINER was for protection for people who had large works-in-progress that would suffer cvs merge conflicts or were the primary developer of a piece of software. Will is neither. FreeBSD's src tree is a shared pool of code, not a collection of mini fiefdoms with barricades around collections of protected code. There are some special cases though where the scope of doing work on something that we *need* in the base tree (eg: gcc etc) has special requirements as there are huge changes going on for tracking an external source and trying to keep our stuff in sync. But things like make(1) dont need this. Yes, it is nice to have a primary contact for make, but Will doesn't need special powers in order to be assigned PR's or apply patches or work with the NetBSD/OpenBSD folk to get things closer together. If we actually did end up with a merged make that was the same in all trees, then IMHO that would warrant it, but not right now. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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