Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!indri!nic.MR.NET!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Posting Patches; Was Patch frequency Message-ID: <13676@ncoast.ORG> Date: 23 May 89 00:25:41 GMT References: <340@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 24 As quoted from <340@ubbs-nh.MV.COM> by noel@ubbs-nh.MV.COM (Noel B. Del More Nashua): +--------------- | In article paf@uts.amdahl.com (Paul A. Fronberg) writes: | >I claim that all offical patches should be issued through the moderated source | >group that the program was originally posted. This would allow easier | >administration of fixes and put them in a known group. | | This is an idea that has alot of merit. While it would result in some | inconvienence, in that the patch would have to pass through the | moderator resulting in some delay reaching the end user of the program, | it would introduce some degree of consistency into the posting of | patches. +--------------- Bill Randle (comp.sources.games) and I already do this *if we are sent the patches*. I'm not certain about Rich Salz and comp.sources.unix; but we can't post what we haven't been sent by the author of the original package. ++Brandon -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc allbery@ncoast.org uunet!hal.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery ncoast!allbery@hal.cwru.edu Send comp.sources.misc submissions to comp-sources-misc@ NCoast Public Access UN*X - (216) 781-6201, 300/1200/2400 baud, login: makeuser