[illumos-Developer] tr webrev

[Rich Reynolds]

On 09/ 7/10 10:27 AM, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 16:41 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 08:21:33AM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 16:08 +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Getting fbsd to understand that relying on operator precedence rules
>>>>> like the original code does is a bad idea, might be challenging. I don't
>>>>> know how things like this are viewed in that community.
>>>>
>>>> I was part of that community for about 10 years and I think they'd
>>>> welcome it.
>>>
>>> Well, then, please go ahead and submit a report to them.
>>
>> I don't know you well enough to be sure, but this sounds quite a lot
>> like "I can't be bothered".  If that isn't the case, then I'll
>> reconsider what I'm about to say next.
>
> There are about a million things I'm jugging with respect to illumos
> right now.  I can't possibly do them all.  I need other people to help
> out!
>
>>
>> I was thinking that keeping the sources in sync might both make things
>> easier for you in future and show some level of co-operation; if you
>> don't care enough about it having the full knowledge of what changes you
>> made then I certainly don't care enough to retrace your steps and do it
>> for you, sorry.
>
> I understand your point.  Keeping sources in sync may or may not be
> useful and relevant here -- I'm not sure.
>
> Ultimately, we have quite a few upstreams, and I cannot personally
> handle synchronization with each and every one of them.  I hope you
> understand.
>
> If integration of "tr" was all I was handling, it would be different,
> but I have at least a couple of dozen different illumos projects I'm
> working on or involved with at the moment.
>
> 	- Garrett
>
>
>
and in that vain if you have a relationship with another community that 
can be leveraged now is the time to speak up...

i had many in the past...  but they were long ago "unleverageable"

now is the time to take stock of who can do what for whom..

rich