[7136] in SIPB bug reports
Re: So, does anyone still maintain the tcl locker?...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Fri Jan 22 06:37:17 1999
To: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-tcl@MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
From: chad brown <yandros@akamai.com>
Date: 22 Jan 1999 06:37:00 -0500
In-Reply-To: Jacob Morzinski's message of "Fri, 22 Jan 1999 00:37:26 -0500 (EST)"
It is now and has always been my opinion that outland should be used
only for software that is neat, new, testing, or otherwise unstable.
It is my opinion that MOST users should not be using outland
regularly, although I would be happier if they did.
It IS my opinion that people who use outland regularly should expect
things in it to break occasionally, and they should also be prepared
to hear ``yeah, it breaks. I'll look at it eventually'' or similar if
they report problems.
Finally, it IS my opinion that many sipb people have taken to using
outland as the dumping ground for programs when they are too lazy to
migrate programs to the sipb locker. I think that this attitude was
started at a time when the sipb locker was nearly full, and something
of a mess to maintain. This should not be an issue anymore.
The SIPB maintains a locker for neat, cool, interesting, and useful
programs that we find that we think users *in* *general* should want
to access regularly: sipb.
We also maintain a locker for things that may turn out to be nifty,
keen, fun, useful, and/or stable. This is outland.
Again `IMHO', almost every program in outland should be thought of as
a candidate for eventual inclusion in the sipb locker. If people feel
like to sipb locker has grown to be too `rigid' for members to make
use of it, rather than turning `normal users' on the sandbox, we
should fix the sipb locker policies.
chad
