Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 19:33:12 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com, archie@whistle.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/eisa ahb.c Message-ID: <199901281833.TAA00482@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <83910.917513301@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Jan 28, 99 00:48:21 am"
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote... > > How Mr. ignoromous Nate could construe this to mean that I was trying > > to brush something under the rug is beyond me. As I said to Julian, > > I probably shouldn't have made the committ, but the fact is that I > > not only left the module on my hotlist, I also immediately brought > > the potential problem to the attention of the entire list and thence, > > I think this whole tangled thread can probably be summed up thusly: > > There will always be those remarking from the sidelines about any > change which goes into the FreeBSD source tree, and I do mean ANY > change, the amount of commentary usually in inverse proportion to the > importance of the change. This is just a given. It's also a given > that some of these people will have far less clue than others and even > those who have a clue will often express their comments in such a way > as to come across as criticising or carping, even though they may not > have meant to. There are a lot of engineers here and human > interaction is rarely their strong suit. > > In any case, rather than getting into a protracted furball with each > and every commentator and perhaps using inappropriate language in a > public mailing list in the process, you've gotta do what pro golfers > and ballplayers do - learn to ignore the crowd when it hasn't got Ah, you mean like John McEnroe ? ;-) Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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