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Date:      Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:45:08 +0100
From:      Tobias Roth <roth@iam.unibe.ch>
To:        Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Portupgrade confused about editors/emacs
Message-ID:  <20060106124508.GB14967@droopy.unibe.ch>
In-Reply-To: <43BE63E7.4060209@rogers.com>
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On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 07:34:47AM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote:
> 
> Its not harsh, its reality. If you are going to contribute, don't 
> contribute broken code. If its broken, fix it. If you cant fix it, back 
> it out until its ready. I have been using freebsd since 2.x and i can 
> tell you that the quality of freebsd is slowly declining, more and more 
> broken code is being committed, and its not being address properly. A 
> perfect example of this is the recent RCng commits to 6-STABLE. The 
> ports are clearly not ready for this, yet its been committed and left. 
> Now many ports refuse to work. This clearly breaks POLA.

I agree to the RCng example. How long was it in -CURRENT? Two weeks?
Then MFC it over the christmas season, when there is a high probability
that maintainers of affected ports might not be around to fix the mess?
Not good.

greets, t.



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