Subject: Re: Faster pipes from FreeBSD
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/08/2001 13:48:58
matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au> writes:
> Maybe what we need is to have a spot on the ftp site for "I was
> working on this and never finished, and if you would like to take this
> code and finish the TODO list be my guest". The shame is not so much
> that the original author never got it clean enough as that no one else
> has the chance to do the work either so long as the code isn't public.
>
> i fail to see why branches fail to provide a place for unfinished work....
Sometimes they're right, sometimes the mechanism is too
heavyweight. The other issue is that it isn't always obvious that the
work exists if it is on a branch in the sense that people will not
find it by casually browsing...
Perry
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