svn commit: r217090 - head/etc

[Doug Barton]

On 01/07/2011 11:00, Jaakko Heinonen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 2011-01-07, Doug Barton wrote:
>> If by silence you mean that there was no comment on the PR in the future
>> please don't take that as tacit approval. There are a non-trivial number
>> of PRs assigned to -rc, and historically the practice has been not to
>> comment on them until someone indicates that they actually plan to do
>> something about it.
>>
>> In the future it would be great if you could send a note to the list
>> indicating that you plan to make a change, and then wait say 2 or 3
>> non-{weekend|holiday} days for feedback.
>
> I mean this message:
>
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-rc/2010-December/002142.html
>
> I waited>2 weeks for comments and then committed the patch. Admittedly
> I posted the patch as a bug follow-up but I made sure that the message
> ended up to freebsd-rc list.

Yeah, that's Ok, and I should have mentioned that this change is fine. 
My point more generally is that regular e-mail about proposed changes is 
more likely to get useful attention and feedback.


Doug

-- 

	Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much.
			-- OK Go

	Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS.
	Yours for the right price.  :)  http://SupersetSolutions.com/