> I really want to follow the discussions related to the pkg system, but
> I don't have time to wade through all the putback notices and
> code review emails. Is it possible to create a pkg-dev alias and
> move the emails there that are only interesting to people actively
> working on the code for pkg?
A while ago, Bryan Cantrill posted in his blog about a bias that seems
to be common in software engineers. I'm quoting him below, since it's
applicable to this dicussion:
[Software engineers] suffer -- tremendously -- from a bias from
traditional engineering that writing code is like digging a
ditch: that it is a mundane activity best left to day labor --
and certainly beneath the Gentleman Engineer. This belief is
profoundly wrong because software is not like a dam or a
superhighway or a power plant: in software, the blueprints
_are_ the thing; the abstraction _is_ the machine.
(http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/on_the_beauty_in_i)
Since the pkg system _is_ the code, I don't see a point in divorcing the
code review, putback notices, and code-related discussion from other
topics on the list. If you want to understand the development of the pkg
system, it will be hard to figure out what's going on if you're not
following what's happening with the code.
-j
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