Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

[Arnaud Lacombe]

Hi,

[re-sent publicly, I did not "Replied-to-all":)]

On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Steve Kargl
> <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 04:33:44PM -0400, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
>>>
>>> For the record, I would like to see enforced public review for _every_
>>> patch *before* it is checked in, as a strong rule. gcc system is
>>> particularly interesting. But it is not likely to happen in FreeBSD
>>> where FreeBSD committers are clearly more free than other at
>>> checking-in un-publicly-reviewed stuff (especially _bad_ stuff).
>>>
>>> This would of course apply even to long-time committers, no matter how
>>> it hurt their ego (which I definitively do not care about).
>>>
>>
>> As a long time GCC committer, I think that you have grossly
>> over-simplified the GCC review process and how a submitted
>> patch is approved for committing.
>>
> Yes.
>
Just to provide information more information than these sterile mails,
here is the gcc contribution guidelines:

http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html

 - Arnaud