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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> The sad reality is if these things are not incorporated in -current
> then they fall by as the original authors move onto other projects.

The problem is that we need more committer/reviewers who are capable
of bringing stuff in at this scale without also breaking everything.
That's not as easy as it sounds, and even some of our best current
people still break the tree now. :-)

Breaking the tree is also a problem because of the amount of tech
support it generates.  It might not bother the end-user to have to
stay away from -current for a few days, but as one of the developers
who gets subjected to an endless stream (many messages a day!) of mail
saying "current is broken!" "did you know current is broken?"  "hey, I
just thought I'd let you know that current is broken again.  Get your
act togther, guys!" every time current is broken, I mind it very very
much.  Break the tree for 3 days and you've just guaranteed about 200
messages in my inbox (sent to me *directly*, not even through the
mailing lists - those account for another 300 or so).

If people have begun to wonder at our conservatism, that's one very
big reason for it.

						Jordan