Re: CVS commit: src/sys/netinet

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sat, 31 Mar 2018 15:33:30 +0100
    From:        Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>
    Message-ID:  <20180331143330.GB22190@neva>

  | After looking at email archives I see that many active developers
  | are "guilty" of committing 'hi dev@' messages.

It used to be common.   More recently it has mostly ended.

  | If there are enough
  | people who oppose this, they're welcome to start a new thread on
  | appropriate mailing list.

Was done a couple of years ago.   That's why this practice largely stopped.

  | 2. you fixed it in a local tree and you will later have to deal with
  |    a conflict if dev@ needs to tweak your patch for whatever reason.

You throw away your copy and update again (most times.)   Same as
when you're testing a patch and a cleaned up version is committed,

  | On the other hand, 'hi dev@' notifies dev@ after the fact.

Only if they see it,  e-mail is more reliable, and polite.

  | They don't have to do anything to fix things.

If "they" broke it, why is that a good thing?

kre