Joseph Kowalski <Joseph.Kowalski at eng.sun.com> wrote:
>
> > From: Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
> ...
> > You are not allowed to change the behavior of his program without
> > an OK from the author of program xxx that is going to replace this
> > program soon.
>
> That seems a bit strong. And you'ld qualify as the author of tar?
>
> Isn't all that is needed is a better "contact interested parties" mechanism?
Of course, this is why am so annoyed. I did have a long (real face by face)
discussiuon with Jeff Bonwick in September 2004 (long before the changes in
question have been made to SUn tar).
We did even talk abut a prober way to support ACLs and other feartures
so Jeff definitely did know that the way the old ACL implementations have
been implemented in Sun tar is non-portable and reprecated. I did asume that
the ZFS team would contact me before repeating a mistake from the past.
> I don't know how to do this, but I once thought that some mechanism involving
> a parallel source tree where mail addresses could be dropped into a file.
> A posting mechanism would construct the mail distribution from any given
> point in the tree downward. (Needless to say, don't post from /usr/src.)
>
> Anyway, multiple developers colliding is a fact of life. I think the key
> is to may discovery of those developers easier.
>
> Anybody want to work on a "Who ya gonna call?" mechanism?
What would happen if a similar problem did happen with only Sun emplyees
involved?
J?rg
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