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Date:      Tue, 25 Oct 2005 20:44:15 +0100
From:      Mark Murray <markm@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Roman Kurakin <rik@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, obrien@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/cp if_cp.c 
Message-ID:  <200510251944.j9PJiFKx021173@grunt.grondar.org>

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John Baldwin writes:
>Also, anyone with half a brain that reads commit mail knows that rik works on 
>cp(4) and cx(4), so I think that your lack-of-MAINTAINERS claim is just a 
>bunch of hot air personally.  The goal here is not to be able to point at 
>someone and say "look, he didn't follow the exact letter of sub-section 7 of 
>rule8 !!!!", the goal is to turn out a non-suck OS in an environment via a 
>rather diverse (geographic and otherwise) group of developers.  This means 
>that as developers we all need to be more like the software we supposedly 
>work on: strict on what we "send" (how we work with other folks), and liberal 
>on what we "receive" (how we handle interactions with other folks).  Rules 
are not there for people to nitpick.  They are there to help enable us to 
>achieve the end goal, but you need to evaluation actions as far as how best 
>to achieve the end goal.

Brilliantly said!! Mr Baldwin, take a bow.

M
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