On Mar 4, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 06:27:57PM -0500, Magnus Torfason wrote:
>> What would be the process for getting this kind of
>> patch committed into the repo? Votes, comments, consensus?
>
> There is no formal process as such.
>
> Your earlier posts about obliterate have received lots of comments,
> so it's reasonable to assume that this patch will trigger some further
> discussion.
>
> I'd say we'll wait a while for some comments, and if the general vibe
> during the discussion is positive, we'll commit this update to the
> spec.
> If no comments arrive, we'll see what we can do about that.
>
> While I myself have not yet concerned myself enough with "obliterate"
> to be able to provide useful comments, I am glad to see you trying
> to push this long-standing issue forward and would hate to see this
> contribution end up being dropped.
I went ahead and committed the patch in r36503. Although I didn't
read it thoroughly, and I don't have time to push the obliterate work
forward, I think we can iterate on the design in the repo instead of
the mailing list. Getting this committed is a step toward that end.
-Hyrum
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