Alec Warner wrote: [Sun Mar 25 2007, 09:08:01PM CDT]
> It's acceptable to me.  I'd rather see us make progress than postpone
> changes for months while devs bicker about changes to be made.  That would
> not be the case if say, people had the balls to just fix things in the
> tree.  However we have this fun system where you have to incessantly
> contact the maintainer in order to get anything done lest they cry and
> moan and run to the council because 'you touched their precious package'.

Just for the record, that's not supposed to be "the system".  The
reason we give such sweeping CVS privs is precisely so that people can
fix broken packages.  Just don't break anything when you do it.  If you
do, then you deserve to have the council thump you.

-g2boojum-
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