Do you think we need another TRB? It could be used to oust undesirable committers if needed.
Sent from my iPhone On Nov 28, 2012, at 10:25 AM, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwat...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > On 28 Nov 2012, at 17:51, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 09:39:15AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> A> Personally I don't think we need any more anchors attached to people's >> A> feet when developing FreeBSD. >> A> >> A> Mistakes will happen, they will happen in head. Slowing down the >> A> process to eliminate mistakes only works to slow down change and give a >> A> false sense of "fixing stability" when in fact the only thing "stable" >> A> is the slowness of submitting code. >> >> This will eventually lead back to the situation when no one runs head, >> because it is unusable. > > Also, based on past experience: I'm much happier reviewing shaky code before > it goes into the tree than trying to debug it in situ and having to back it > out. If our advice to many companies is that they should start developing > products against head, we can't let the quality of the head get back to the > way it was in the 5.x timeframe. Several factors have led to our having a > nearly-production quality development head over the last few years -- one is > much heavier use of branched development for features (first Perforce, and > more recently, Subversion, git, etc branches); the other is much heavier use > of code review, especially for critical parts of the system. Device driver > authors have a lot more leeway, but for core parts of the design, seeking > review during development of a feature, and then before merging it upstream, > should be an expectation for all but the most trivial of changes. It's a > two-way street, of course: if you review other people's code, they will > review your s, so as more people use review, the pool of potential reviewers goes up as well. > > Robert _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
