Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 13:04:40 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@flugsvamp.com> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Cc: darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au, jlemon@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, core@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/netinet fil.c ip_auth.c ip_auth.h ip_compat.h ip_fil.c ip_fil.h ip_frag.c ip_frag.h ip_ftp_pxy.c Message-ID: <20010607130440.Z82158@prism.flugsvamp.com> In-Reply-To: <20010607105241J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> References: <20010607065857X.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <200106071433.AAA07396@avalon.reed.wattle.id.au> <20010607105241J.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 10:52:41AM -0700, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > Too bad they deemed it below themselves to ask me what I thought of this > > given I've had time to think this over since the last flame war. > > That is too bad. If you'd changed your thinking on the matter then > they were evading a problem which didn't actually exist, which only > adds insult to injury. That's why we have precedent for doing things > like this with advance notification through the mailing lists and > don't equate simply chatting about it in IRC beforehand with giving > proper notice. You are quite right in saying that someone took > advantage of the situation. The decision they made and their logic > that now would be a good time to finally resolve the location of the > ipfilter bits may have been sound, but they also ran roughshod over > procedure in their haste to do this and that can't be tolerated in the > future. I've cc'd -core on this because I think that enforcing > procedure regardless of circumstances is part of core's function and > I'd like this complaint to go on the official record. As the saying > goes, two wrongs don't make a right. Hmm. I recall that one of the participants in the discussion happened to be a certain "jkh", and at no time was it brought up to me that "hey, there is a procedure XXX to follow". Now this doesn't excuse the fact that perhaps I should have done things differently, but posturing after the deed that "this was not done right!" when you were aware of the situation doesn't strike me as right either. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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