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Date:      Sun, 15 Dec 2002 02:46:03 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How can I post a pr when my IP can't be reverse-resolved?
Message-ID:  <20021215004602.GB5523@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <20021215003803.GA13126@HAL9000.homeunix.com>
References:  <3DFA09A2.C5B0103B@mindspring.com> <3DFB13B9.B185DCD0@softweyr.com> <20021214122121.GA16263@gothmog.gr> <20021214210507.GA12180@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <20021215002117.GB5083@gothmog.gr> <20021215003803.GA13126@HAL9000.homeunix.com>

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On 2002-12-14 16:38, David Schultz <dschultz@uclink.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> Thus spake Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>:
> > Email is easier to track though.  And measures *can* be taken.
> > Anyway, I'm not entirely against moderation for PRs submitted through
> > email too.  Right now, this is not one of my problems though.  My most
> > serious concern is implementing something that makes moderation
> > possible, and not choosing whether it be used for email only or web
> > only or both.
>
> Assuming that all committers can approve PRs, the delay ought to
> be a few hours at best, and that's acceptable.  What's not
> acceptable is to use the feature as a quality control mechanism,
> rather than as an abuse-control mechanism.  Otherwise, you would
> be making the system closed, and at that point we might as well be
> writing the next version of Solaris or Windows.

That's optimistic enough, but seeing how misfiled PRs pile up at
times, I don't really expect "all committers" to work on this.


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