Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 04:59:42PM -0500, Al Hopper wrote:
>
> > Please don't ask an unpaid, volunteer, OpenSolaris developer to make
> > changes that are simply stylistic or (personal) preference based.
> > Consider that Sun employees are paid to make any changes their
> > management requests - but that simply can't apply to volunteers like
> > Roland who have already put *hundreds* of unpaid man-hours into a
> > project.
>
> He's not asking Roland to make changes because he's his manager and
> can tell him what to work on. The correct way to interpret this is as
> an exchange of review commentary between peer engineers. If Roland
> doesn't want to make those changes, Meem can ask the C-team to block
> his RTI due to unsatisfied review comments. That's not the same as
> saying that Roland has to do this or that or he's fired.
OK, if I get the right to block the RTI for the next unplanned (*) Sun tar,
I have no problem with this point of view. If this is not possible, it would
help a lot if there was a more realistic approach.
*) Because it introduces new "inherited waste"
J?rg
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