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Date:      Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:36:03 -0500 (EST)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011115133402.1877A-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <200111151810.fAFIAf931515@freefall.freebsd.org>

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It strikes me that the CVSROOT/access commit messages are getting less and
less readable over time.  While I appreciate the benefits of a good joke,
it might make sense to avoid obfuscating the real content of the message
when doing so.  It seems like there are a few basic questions that need to
be answered for new committers: 

(1) Who will their mentor be
(2) What will they be doing
(3) What kind of committer are they (ports, src, ...)

This commit message failed to explicitly answer (1) and (2), and (3) was
not clearly represented.  I'd really appreciate it if future access commit
messages could attempt to be explicit on these three points, and relegate
the obligatory joke to being a secondary function of the message.

Thanks,

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project
robert@fledge.watson.org      NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services

On Thu, 15 Nov 2001, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> sobomax     2001/11/15 10:10:41 PST
> 
>   Modified files:
>     .                    access 
>   Log:
>   Ok, ladies and gentleman, I know that you are tired to see this happening
>   for a third time in a two days, but nevertheless please welcome Ernst de
>   Haan <ernsth@nl.euro.net> on board.
>   
>   Ernst is known for his pathological love towards the programming language that
>   is also loved by all hardware manufacturers for its exceptionally high
>   resources requirements.
>   
>   He will be concentrating on making FreeBSD the best platform for the above
>   mentioned language.
>   
>   BTW, he is going to be the last ports committer approved by the core...
>   
>   Approved by:    core, portmgr
>   
>   Revision  Changes    Path
>   1.269     +1 -0      CVSROOT/access
> 


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