Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:04:55 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/games/fortune/datfiles freebsd-tips Message-ID: <22801.1106046295@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 18 Jan 2005 19:05:24 %2B1030." <20050118083524.GL79181@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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In message <20050118083524.GL79181@wantadilla.lemis.com>, "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" writes: >>> +% >>> +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. I totally fail to follow you here... >The questions are: > >1. Do we want to tell beginners how to circumvent the intentions of > the project? The intention is to avoid security problems caused by dead accounts. If people keep their account alive by correcting the birthday of Benjamin Franklin then they are not a dead account, and they have transgressed on neither intention nor rules of the project. It may look a bit silly after some time with only commits of this sort, in particular if they adjust Benjamin Franklins birthday every time, but it is also neither against our rules nor intentions to look silly. Seen from a project point of view it can't possibly hurt our quality if somebody attends to calendar or fortune, even if they only do so once per year. So I really fail to see what you are upset about... Poul-Henning PS: nice article about your beer, I hope you bring some to a conference some day :-) -- 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.
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