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Date:      Wed, 04 Oct 2000 01:05:11 +0100
From:      Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        Christopher Masto <chris@netmonger.net>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Joseph Scott <joseph.scott@owp.csus.edu>, Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c
Message-ID:  <39DA7437.EAD39E03@originative.co.uk>
References:  <84077.970617261@winston.osd.bsdi.com>

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Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > I think you're looking at it the wrong way around. The stable team
> > wouldn't be putting in a lot of hours reviewing stable commits.
> 
> Fine, change "reviewing" to "doing" and my original point still holds.
> How many hours are you and the other developers who volunteer willing
> to commit to this?  That's all I want to know and it's a reasonable
> question to ask.

Personally I'm willing to do this full time.

> I'm not saying that it's absolutely impossible for such groups to
> work, simply that history has not shown their effectiveness in the
> most favorable light so far and any working group(s) this project may
> create will have to fight an uphill battle to overcome this.

At the moment I can't see it working either since there's a strong
feeling from one side of the project that -stable should be closer to
the bleeding edge than the other side of the project would like and
until that is resolved any group of people trying to monitor what goes
into -stable is going to fall foul of one set of opinions or the other.

Paul Richards
FreeBSD Services Ltd


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