Subject: Re: pullup request for isp_pci.c
To: Luke Mewburn <lukem@NetBSD.org>
From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/14/2003 23:10:40
Sorry- it's been my experience, that at l east for me, it *is* expensive
to get the pullup request formatted exactly right. I always seem to take
2 runs at getting it right. That has caused me to defer attempting
pullups unless it's realyl important.


On Mon, 15 Sep 2003, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 02:12:35PM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote:
>   |
>   | This is a stupid and trivial printout change and in no way affects the
>   | actual behaviour. The pullup process is so expensive in NetBSD that I
>   | was waiting until changes that are more substantial came along to do
>   | that.
>
> The pullup process is a matter of a developer forwarding a copy of the
> commit message to the appropriate release engineering ticket tracking
> pullup address, and wait for releng to apply it.
>
> It's not *that* "expensive".  And it has certainly resulted in a
> release branch that is more stable than for previous releases
> when we let developers commit at their whim to the it...
>