On Thu, 27 Jun 2002, Jun Sun wrote: > You missed the point - I like to see some open discussions before any big > changes to MIPS. If you look back of all the significant changes made to the Agreed. > MIPS tree, you will see a high percentage of them went in without any open I can't actually recall any significant changes recently (barring platform additions I don't really track), certainly not since 2.4. All I observe are bug fixes, clean-ups and similar stuff. > discussion or pre-warning. It is this context that brought out :-(. Not your > patch per se. If you suggest that this change qualifies as big, then I'd write you exaggerate. Anyway, I've sent a proposed function and then a real implementation of bits that were broken "since forever". Even the previous clean-up, for 32-bit MIPS solely, was written by me -- apparently nobody else was interested in the subsystem. Then you are aware of the changes. You may look at the original and the new code. You may suggest improvements, fixes, etc. The source tree is not cast in stone -- any changes may get reverted, fixed, rewritten, etc. Thus I think the context is clean. > Once in while I hop into other communities. I get a feeling they appear to be > doing better than us in this regard. And I like that feeling. Well, as you might have noticed I send unobvious patches here, asking for comments (usually getting no response, unforunately). I comment on others' changes if I feel I have thoughts to express. I don't sent patches I consider obvious here -- if you worry of bad changes, then just follow the CVS list. I reply to commits I consider problematic when I spot one, others do as well. I believe the arrangement here is as good as it can be. Certainly it's not worse than that of the linux-kernel list (with the official kernel you usually know something got changed in the i386 or generic bits only after your favourite non-i386 code doesn't work or even compile anymore). The volume is low, easy to follow. I sometimes even worry it's too low -- as if hardly anyone was interested. Maciej -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
