Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 16:27:39 -0700 (PDT) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/zic private.h scheck.c zic.c src/us Message-ID: <XFMail.010716162739.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20010716152223.B23646@dragon.nuxi.com>
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On 16-Jul-01 David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 02:36:10PM -0700, John Baldwin wrote: >> > On the flip side, why bother? Sometimes it is nice to keep the tags as >> > expected. :-) >> >> Cause people don't _know_ it's contrib code. The contrib/ directory is how >> we >> tell people that it is, and as for repo-bloat, it's a whopping 276k. > > I never said anything about repo bloat. Old timers know it where to > find this. You seem to be quite on the crusade to reorganize much of the > source layout. Not all committers are old timers. The barrier to entry is difficult enough as it is; having obscure exceptions to rules that result in committers getting kicked in the head with no warning doesn't help things at all. What's wrong with consistency? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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