Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 00:08:56 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org>, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav <des@des.no>, Peter Grehan <grehan@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/tools/tools/tinderbox/etc current.rc head.rc update_current.rc update_head.rc Message-ID: <20050721220856.GA12836@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <200507211726.14034.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200507201959.j6KJxkJl000803@repoman.freebsd.org> <86hdenx5mg.fsf@xps.des.no> <20050721203934.GC1097@anarion> <200507211726.14034.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:26:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote.. > On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:39 pm, Liam J. Foy wrote: > > On Thu(21)/Jul/05 - , Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: > > > "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy@sepulcrum.org> writes: > > > > On Thu(21)/Jul/05 - , Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > > Please add ia64 back for releng_6 and add powerpc and ia64 back > > > > > for head. The least. > > > > > > > > I agree. I'd like to see them added back please. > > > > > > You don't have a vote. Neither does Marcel. > > > > Who do you think you are DES? Seriously, am sure you think you're above > > everyone else. You need to dumb the attitude. > > It would be helpful to realize that DES does not have an infinite amount of > hardware and bandwidth, etc. at his disposal. The tinderbox scripts are in > CVS, and you are free to setup any number of tinderboxes that you wish to > have on your _own_ hardware. In other words, if we want to keep doing > powerpc and ia64 tinderboxes (which I think would certainly be desirable) we > need to find someone with some hardware to run it on. > > <rant> > In other words again: instead of mouthing off at DES like some two year old > when his mommy takes away the toy he was borrowing from someone else so she > can give it back to the original owner, go setup a machine and run the > powerpc and ia64 tinderbox on it yourself sending out the e-mails to the > appropriate lists, etc. This is a community project, and when the load for a > specific task gets too high for one person/machine to handle, we ought to be > chipping into help share the load instead of beating up on the person who's > been doing it all by themselves up until now. <grump> > </rant> <rant> Public/commiter relations go a long way. If there are not enough resources available of some sort the obvious cause of action would be to ask for resources. Not to just axe things with a commit message that inevitably leads to this kind of silly debate. </rant> -- Wilko Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org
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