style patch to arp(8)
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Mar 18 22:39:07 PST 2004
I told this to Chris but I will also say it officially so there is no
confusion... the original 3-day waiting period was meant for fairly
complex code changes, like new features. The stuff Chris is doing
(ANSIfication and code cleanups) obviously does not require a 3-day
waiting period, 1-day is just fine (at least for starters) and
even immediately is fine for tiny changes (though always do a recompile
to be sure it doesn't break the build).
And, for that matter, simple bug fixes which fix system crashes don't
really need a waiting period either, since you generally can't make
things any worse :-)
And things like documentation changes, which can be trivially backed out
or fixed after the fact without impacting the rest of the system, don't
really need a waiting period at all.
So its a matter of common sense. I realize that I, and Joerg too,
probably bend these rules a bit more then we should. Just hit us with
a clue stick if we blow things up too often :-).
-Matt
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