[20837] in Athena Bugs
Re: "help" is really not so clear...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Oliver Thomas)
Fri Sep 27 18:04:11 2002
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 18:04:45 -0400
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From: Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU>
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Creating the README file is really the only way I have interacted with
the help locker. That was done in the context of an Owls decision to
allow some links to future web pages to live in the locker while
maintaining control over the directories in it that things in the
release depend on.
I don't think I own any of the scripts or binaries in that locker nor
would I trust myself in the patching business. Given the release
dependencies, I think they should probably be owned by release team. If
there is resistance to this, it may need to bounce to owls. I can
mention it at release team on Wednesday and ask at the same time if
anyone is willing to apply the patch.
Oliver
On Friday, September 27, 2002, at 05:06 PM, John Hawkinson wrote:
> Oliver Thomas <othomas@MIT.EDU> wrote on Fri, 27 Sep 2002
> at 17:00:31 -0400 in <28C3EDBE-D25C-11D6-B9EA-000393A3632A@mit.edu>:
>
>
>> Fine with me. As far as I'm concerned this does not need review beyond
>> source-reviewers or whoever normally approves patches to stuff in the
>> release. Although isn't help an attachandrun script?
>
> help in the release is an attachandrun script pointing to help
> in the help locker, which is what I submitted my patch again...
>
>> So the group who needs to sign off on the patch may be even
>> smaller. Definitely no sign-off from owls needed, as far as I'm
>> concerned.
>
> OK. I can't figure out who the mysterious small group is, other than
> concluding it might be a group of one (you).
> If you'd like source-reviewers to review said patch, just say the word,
> but I think it's pretty self-explanatory.
>
> --jhawk
