Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 16:36:09 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20030507163609.61cb1de4.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030507162232.65817b-100000@fledge.watson.org> References: <20030507182528.GA91008@perrin.int.nxad.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030507162232.65817b-100000@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 7 May 2003 16:24:23 -0400 (EDT) Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > > OK. I give up. I have answered atleast 20 mails regarding > > these two commits. If this upsets a lot of committers, than I > > apologise for this well-intentioned commit of mine. > > > > Thanks for the advise. I will keep it in mind. > > Cheers. > > You've run into a bikeshed scenario: the more inconsequential the issue, > the more people are likely to have opinions about it, and feel strongly > that you're wrong. Since bikeshed probabilities often decrease with a > higher level of usefulness in a commit, you may find that focussing on > activities with a higher usefulness measure helps with the problem. > > FWIW, you're not the only committer who's discovered that minor wording > changes from "possibly incorrect" to "possibly correct" bite off more than > they planned for :-). > Stop looking at me... :) -- Tom Rhodes
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