Re: TODO list?

From: Joshua Oreman (oremanj_at_webserver.get-linux.org)
Date: 06/28/03

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    Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2003 09:48:19 -0700
To: Joseph Holland King <insanc@cc.gatech.edu>

    On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:10:08AM -0400 or thereabouts, Joseph Holland King wrote:
    > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:59:50AM -0700, Terry Lambert had the gall to say:
    > > Give him a commit bit, and he can quickly grind through all the
    > > PR's that already have diff's attached to them, and have just sat
    > > there forever. All he'd need to do was verify that there was a
    > > problem that was being fixed, and the code didn't look like it
    > > would cause damage. If it ends up causing damage anyway, the fix
    > > can always be backed out later. Making send-pr actually result in
    > > code changes would probably be the most valuable thing anyone could
    > > do for the project, and it would give him a chance to read and to
    > > understand a lot of diverse code, in the process, to get up to speed
    > > on writing his own fixes for PR's without fixes attached.
    >
    > heh, i must say that without a commit bit its almost impossible to get
    > any of the pr's closed, even ones that are five years old with a fix
    > attached.

    Because you'll send another PR about the PR! :-)

    -- Josh

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