chris...@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) wrote: > > | Are you planning to maintain this? That should be something for the > | maintainer to decide, since it is not a small and simple code base. > > What I am saying is that all lines you change, they become diffs. Diffs > in our preferred style or theirs does not matter. Either way we maintain > them. I don't even think that people at sun^Woracle will think twice about > taking our changes as they are (without changing the style of sizeof).
ZFS/DTrace is, at some level, abstracted by the wrappers to our NetBSD interfaces. There are certain heavy changes, which in any case require maintenance. However, there is a difference between maintaining certain set of functions and core changes, and a ton of style, whitespace, etc changes all over the place. Do not you agree? > Finally I don't think we'll see much of the Open Source stuff sun freed > keep being updated by Oracle. Haven't you been following the news lately? That seems like an argument based on a rumour. :) > | That is arbitrary. Can we please just stay relatively liberal (up to sane > | point) about small style differences each developer has? Otherwise we can > | bikeshed about this until November. > > I don't think that this is controvercial or a big deal. It is not a mandate > to go and change all existing code, or force people to do it. OK. Thanks. -- Mindaugas
