IPFILTER Branch [was: Re: [current tinderbox] failure on
powerpc/powerpc]
Jose M Rodriguez
josemi at freebsd.jazztel.es
Sat May 7 12:54:03 PDT 2005
El Sábado, 7 de Mayo de 2005 21:24, Giorgos Keramidas escribió:
> On 2005-05-07 10:30, Peter Schultz <pmes at bis.midco.net> wrote:
> > Darren is on holiday, so you will not be getting a veto anytime
> > soon.
>
> Not really. That was a joke (but I fell for it too)!
>
> > As an aside, Darren is so notorious for breaking the build, I don't
> > know why anyone bothers complaining anymore. I'm beginning to
> > think he does it just to get under people's skin. Either take away
> > his privileges or accept that he will be breaking the build.
>
> Darren maintains IP Filter on a lot of platforms *AND* has a real
> dayjob to work for. You're right about him having broken the build a
> few times, but that's not the end of the world. He is making an
> effort to fix what gets broken, after all.
>
> Let's not overreact, shall we? :-)
>
> As far as a branch is concerned, please *NO*! Anyone who wishes to
> maintain a separate IP Filter spinoff of CURRENT can do it using his
> own disk space and CVS repository (or Perforce branch, if you
> prefer).
>
> - Giorgos
>
But I think that this kind of pull-ups really needs of some HEAD-UPs and
the assistance of people more closer to current, before the breakage.
At last, I can't see this kind of matters in NetBSD, where the pullups
are done by 'NetBSD people'.
And this with all the respect to Darren's ipf work, that I use both in
FreeBSD and NetBSD.
--
josemi
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