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Date:      Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:23:24 -0600
From:      Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>
To:        =?UTF-8?B?RGFnLUVybGluZyBTbcO4cmdyYXY=?= <des@des.no>
Cc:        Jack F Vogel <jfv@freebsd.org>, cvs-src@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org, Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com>, cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files kern.pre.mk src/sys/dev/em	LICENSE e1000_80003es2lan.c e1000_80003es2lan.h e1000_82540.c	e1000_82541.c e1000_82541.h e1000_82542.c e1000_82543.c	e1000_82543.h e1000_82571.c e1000_82571.h e1000_82575.c ...
Message-ID:  <47079A5C.3090109@samsco.org>
In-Reply-To: <86d4vspk8j.fsf@ds4.des.no>
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org> writes:
> 
>>What do you expect to accomplish by lecturing a vendor who has shown
>>very good faith over the years in supporting FreeBSD?  Maybe we should
>>tell Intel to piss off since you obviously know how to support their
>>hardware much better than they do.
> 
> 
> We used to have a principle that commit bits were granted to individuals
> on their individual merit, not simply because they represented a vendor
> and were paid to work on drivers for that vendor's hardware.
> 

Are you implying that Jack has no merit?  That's an unfortunate
assertion.  What evidence do you have to support that?

> We also used to have a principle that changes should be tested before
> being committed, especially to -STABLE.

I guess you missed that part where Jack said that the changes had
undergone extensive testing.

Scott




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