From owner-cvs-all Mon Jul 16 4:53:51 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D044F37B409; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 04:53:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f6GBqpn33806; Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:52:52 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Chad David Cc: Alfred Perlstein , John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Dima Dorfman Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man9 cdevsw_add.9 cdevsw_remove.9 In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 15 Jul 2001 00:46:28 MDT." <20010715004628.B40654@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:52:51 +0200 Message-ID: <33804.995284371@critter> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010715004628.B40654@colnta.acns.ab.ca>, Chad David writes: > This is what I have done so far (there are many more on my todo list, and > yes I am going to merge some of these :-) ): > > vinvalbuf - done/commit [...Loooooong list...] I've come in late in this thread, but I want to add a couple of comments: Chad: THANKYOU very MUCH for your work. Don't let all these grumpy old men fool you, we love your stuff. Alfred: Don't panic so easily, the world wont go under because of a bikeshed. O'Brien: For somebody insisting that "Style matters!" your email communication style leaves a lot to be desired: Relax. Everybody: While it may be true that Chad hasn't done a perfect job, it is totally insane to beat him on the head with this fact when most of us have not even tried to do our little part of the same job. One doesn't look a gift horse in the mouth, remember ? When people submit stuff which is good material, but some minor stylistic points are wrong, the correct response is not "burn him at the stake", the correct response is "great job buddy, uhm, next time, could you try to ..." -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message