On Mon, 2006-May-22 10:37:09 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Jeremy writes: >The main reason it does not work is that whenever some feature is >put on notice, a number of very vocal people will come out defending >exactly that feature as the only reason the world still exists etc. > >Eventuallyy, somebody will grudingly say "I'll take responsibility >for this code". > >And then nothing continues happen.
I think it needs to be made clear that the deadline is for the submission of fixes, not just saying that "I'll look after it". >In the case of PCVT this would have been amounted to: > > "Fix PCVT to be SMP locked, do the right things with TTYs, > work with whatever is the state of the art in keyboards. > And do so before August 1st OR ELSE". > >Now, in your own mind, think for a moment what would have happened >if I had sent that email out... With due respect, you _do_ have a reputation... Kris (effectively) writes this in ports commit messages regularly without the world ending and he hasn't been lynched yet. I suspect that if the above mail had come from core@ (or their proxy), there wouldn't be much of a problem. >It follows logically that the only way to be sure to keep any given >piece of code alive is to become a developer and maintain it yourself. I agree. I'm not offering to maintain pcvt. I'm just surprised at the apparent haste with which it was dispatched. If I missed an earlier headsup, my apologies. -- Peter Jeremy _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
