From owner-cvs-all Tue Oct 3 17: 5:20 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailgate.originative.co.uk (mailgate.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2973037B503; Tue, 3 Oct 2000 17:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from originative.co.uk (lobster.originative.co.uk [194.217.50.241]) by mailgate.originative.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FDC61D140; Wed, 4 Oct 2000 01:05:11 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <39DA7437.EAD39E03@originative.co.uk> Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 01:05:11 +0100 From: Paul Richards X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: Christopher Masto , Warner Losh , Kris Kennaway , Joseph Scott , Brian Somers , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/finger finger.c References: <84077.970617261@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message