Seth Arnold wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 09:20:39PM -0400, jmjonesat_private wrote: > > HE suggested a one-day review period. You seem to agree with me that it > > may be inadequate in some circumstances. What circumstances? This is a > > truely cosmic conundrum, but a first-order answer is probably better than > > none. > > I don't think Crispin intended for one day to be all the time allowed for > preparation of a competing proposal -- just that one day is enough time to > let someone look at a proposal and possibly complain if the idea seems > inadequate or misguided. > > The actual process of replacing the 'faulty' patch could possibly take weeks. Seth is correct, that's what I intended: a one-day waiting period for objections, followed by an arbitrary/appropriate period to develop alternatives. > Waiting more than one day is going to slow the project down too much. We want > to have something to take to 2.5.x for some small value of x. ;) But one day > should be enough for someone to at least make a rough guess if the patch > looks good or not. I really meant "one day" not "one business day." There are really helpful people working this project on their personal time, and it is not constructive to bias the rules in favor of commercially paid contributors. But I'm also quite convinced by Greg's arguments to keep it very informal. Basically, I think it would be polite for the people with write access to the tree to give a shout out that they're about to commit something. It might prevent a situation (which has already happened) in which a proposed patch that I expected to be rejected was committed. >From the functional point of view, the "About to commit" protocol helps busy people to prioritize reading stuff that is imminant ahead of stuff that's just being floated. Crispin -- Crispin Cowan, Ph.D. Chief Scientist, WireX Communications, Inc. http://wirex.com Security Hardened Linux Distribution: http://immunix.org Available for purchase: http://wirex.com/Products/Immunix/purchase.html _______________________________________________ linux-security-module mailing list linux-security-moduleat_private http://mail.wirex.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-security-module
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