On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:58:14PM +0200, Alan Barrett wrote: > >>Regardless of whether or not you got approval from releng, I > >>think it's inappropriate to make major or controversial changes > >>without public discussion. > > > >As far as I can tell from reading the PR you were the only > >objecting to it. Concerning your objection: > > This is not the right place to discuss that. > > >>The only semi-public discussion that I am aware of was in the > >>comments on PR 40346, where there was not consensus that adding > >>expat to base was a good idea. One of the last comments there > >>said that discussion on that issue should go to tech-userlevel, > >>but there was no discussion in tech-userlevel. > > > >Well, it is on the list of "Important bugs" for NetBSD 6.0. So > >my assumption was that it should be fixed. > > If the fix involves major changes to base, then those major changes > should be discussed in tech-userlevel. That's the essence of my > objection.
There was, however, a consensus on tech-x11, Cc'd to current-users, to move it to base. In September 2009. I don't know why nobody ever did. I'd say it's about time, although I could wish it had gotten done a month earlier. (Note that September 2009 was, though excessively long ago, well after the discussion in PR 40346.) -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org
