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> Why do a feel that the patch-and-vote system has been replaced by
> an patch-and-rst-decides system???

+1 for a return to democracy ;-)

+1 for congrats/thanks to Rob T for his efforts.


rob

On Tue, 8 Aug 1995, David Robinson wrote:
> Why do a feel that the patch-and-vote system has been replaced by
> an patch-and-rst-decides system???

Anyone can issue a -1 with equal weight. Rob has been doing the release
engineering because he is more familiar with the code than anyone else
here currently and builds have been happening so fast. I think we *all*
have benefitted from that.

So far none of the bugs reported have been show-stopping - I'm comfortable
with collecting patches until Thursday night, and then doing an official
vote on Friday, creating a 0.8.9. At some point we should restart the
vote database, I agree - anyone willing to be the gardener/programmer for
that?

Brian

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WRT the Alias /foo/ problem, I'm still waiting to hear what the difference
is between my fix and yours --- in particular, whether I'm right that the
only difference seen by the end-user is that with mine, directory listings
on /foo redirect to /foo/, whereas with yours, they don't.

If you like, I suppose we can put this to a vote --- FWIW, I generally have
taken just about anything that I would not have actually vetoed in a full
vote (except for things where something has looked like it would possibly
be controversial, in which case I've tried to be sure that there were three
votes before going on --- as with the AddLanguage stuff, or, for that matter,
with my own idea of making Redirect in .htaccessfiles work; NB the latter
did not happen because judging from the reaction I got, it almost
certainly would have failed a vote on grounds of being inappropriate while
under the code freeze).

rst

Hmmm... well considered, Brian, but I do think the MAXIMUM_DNS bug, at
least, is a show-stopper; I'm happy to wait on all the other stuff.

rst

Rst wrote:
>I had wanted to take a couple of days off from building Apache
>releases, but with patches flying by, I figure I should at *least*
>acknowledge receipt of the ones I've gotten and have no problem with.

So what about my fix for the Alias problem?

(This was the one where rst came up with a tentative fix, which then
somehow got turned into a full apache release - 0.8.8)

Why do a feel that the patch-and-vote system has been replaced by
an patch-and-rst-decides system???

David.

> So far none of the bugs reported have been show-stopping - I'm comfortable
> with collecting patches until Thursday night, and then doing an official
> vote on Friday, creating a 0.8.9. At some point we should restart the
> vote database, I agree - anyone willing to be the gardener/programmer for
> that?


I've always felt at a little of a disadvantage with Friday votes, cuz
you lot on the fast side of the globe get 5 hours more than I do to think
about stuff, here in old Europe ;)

Seriously though, it's got so I just don't have a clue what to expect when I
com in on Monday mornings these days. [.Yeah I know, get an internet
account, and a modem and a home system and hack all weekend... - well
I would if my 28.8 USR wasn't toasted by a firmware bug. It's a modem
fer godssakes, how complicated can it be to fix?!]

</grumble>

Ay.


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