Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:45:12 +0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Paul Richards <paul@freebsd-services.co.uk>, "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, mjacob@feral.com, Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.org>, Matt Jacob <mjacob@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: MAINTAINER (was: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/isp MAINTAINER) Message-ID: <3A0BDFC8.6840B716@originative.co.uk> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010302242420.32420-100000@beppo.feral.com> <39FF973A.1E73319D@newsguy.com> <3A069599.63475551@originative.co.uk> <20001110123947.E1380@sydney.worldwide.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > > Hmm. I think you've not addressed a number of valid reasons that have > already been mentioned in this thread, in particular Matt's reason > that it's difficult to keep software in sync over multiple platforms. > We do have alternative policies for this (vendor imports, though I'm > fuzzy about the details). What do you say a few people go off and > discuss the matter and come up with a draft policy? I'd suggest at > least you, Garrett Wollman and DES. I think that's a reasonable idea. There are valid reasons for using MAINTAINER and as I said, I thought it's original intent was a reasonable one. Guidelines for its use are probably what we need so that everyone's clear as to when it should or should not be used, and what you're allowed and not allowed to do to code that is marked with the tag. Also, some guidlines on where to put and where to look for it would be good. Paul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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