Re: grep-2.5.1a egrep/fgrep PATH problem

[Charles Levert]

* On Friday 2005-06-24 at 11:49:16 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Tony Abou-Assaleh <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > What's the purpose of having more committers if we have active ones?
> 
> I'm a bit of a special case,

I had a bit of a chuckle when I saw Tony's
question, given your obvious "senatorial" status
here and in the GNU project in general.   :-)

I just waited and didn't reply immediately
myself...


> Obviously I'd want to work within any existing review process.  What
> is the process?  Is it written down anywhere?  I grepped for "review"
> in the grep source and didn't find anything.

There appears to be one in place that predates
my recent involvement.  It's probably all
in the mailing list archives (bug-grep and
bug-gnu-utils).  I may have somewhat breached
it recently, but that's because I have some
reservation about it which basically amount to...


> Part of the motivation here, to be honest, is to improve the activity
> rate of 'grep'.  'grep' was way too stagnant for quite some time.
> It's gotten better, but it's still too slow.

... just that.  A balance needs to be struck,
and as you pointed out in another email, we
can always back out of CVS because it keeps
everything.

While no review at all before committing to
CVS is bad, once everybody has been invited to
weigh in, there's always that "if no one objects"
approach (i.e., progress instead of deadlock by
default) that can help keep things going.