Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2005 01:04:37 -0000 From: Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk> To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips Message-ID: <20050118105959.GB75426@myrddin.originative.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050118083524.GL79181@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200501171006.j0HA6CsU042545@repoman.freebsd.org> <20050117232829.GL52890@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20050118081237.GA9406@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20050118083524.GL79181@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 07:05:24PM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Tuesday, 18 January 2005 at 9:12:37 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:58:29AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote.. > >> On Monday, 17 January 2005 at 10:06:12 +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >>> phk 2005-01-17 10:06:12 UTC > >>> > >>> FreeBSD src repository > >>> > >>> Modified files: > >>> games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips > >>> Log: > >>> Minor bit of advice. > >> > >> +% > >> +If you receive email from the grim reaper, you can silence him and > >> +keep your bit for another year with a token commit to a fortune(6) > >> +or calendar(1) data file. > >> > >> I don't think this is appropriate. Please back out. > > > > Appropriate or not, it is technically accurate.. > > Nobody disputed that. > > The questions are: > > 1. Do we want to tell beginners how to circumvent the intentions of > the project? > 2. Do we want to tell committers how to circumvent the intentions of > the project? > > The whole thing reeks of a nasty, snide comment. Is this the > impression that the FreeBSD project wants to cultivate? There are > enough trolls out there already. I think the more pertinent point is that most users are not committers and this is an in-joke that is totally meaningless outside of developers. I agree as well that it gives a bad impression to those outside the project who understand its meaning. Have we become so insular as a project that we think that FreeBSD's users are now just its developers? -- Paul Richards
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