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Date:      Thu, 21 Dec 2000 14:33:47 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>, Kazuo Horikawa <horikawa@psinet.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, doc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: mdoc police and MAINTAINER (was Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/ffsinfo ffsinfo.8 src/sbin/init init.8 src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8)
Message-ID:  <20001221143347.F53393@wantadilla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <200012210355.UAA13639@harmony.village.org>; from imp@village.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 08:55:06PM -0700
References:  <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> <20001221121433.B52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200012200508.eBK58gS47238@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001220095935.E87094@sunbay.com> <200012181452.eBIEqH000902@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001219155039E.horikawa@psinet.com> <20001220085916.A87094@sunbay.com> <200012191536.eBJFamr37746@freefall.freebsd.org> <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> <200012210355.UAA13639@harmony.village.org>

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On Wednesday, 20 December 2000 at 20:55:06 -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <200012210348.UAA13562@harmony.village.org> Warner Losh writes:
>> In message <20001221121433.B52062@wantadilla.lemis.com> Greg Lehey writes:
>>> I didn't see them.  I read my hundreds of commit messages every day,
>>> but especially in the very big, global ones, I sometimes miss
>>> something.  You'll recall that I warned of exactly this possibility
>>> the last time you violated the MAINTAINER bit on ffsinfo.
>>
>> cvs update is supposed to prevent this.  MAINTAINER is *NOT* an
>> exclusive lock.
>
> Besides, I don't see a MAINTAINER flag on vinum at all.  egrep
> MAINTAIN in both src/sys/dev/vinum and src/sys/modules/vinum come up
> empty.  In the case of ffsinfo one might have argued that Ruslan might
> have done something wrong as there was a MAINTAINER flag there.

That was my argument.

> Here, there's no MAINTAINER so Ruslan's question about why you
> backed out his change is valid.

I answered that question.  I keep a separate tree for Vinum (so
technically, I suppose it's a vendor branch or some such).  I make
changes to that tree, and occasionally I get out of sync.  In this
case, it happened to DES as well, but he didn't make as much noise.

Greg
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