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Date:      Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:31:04 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Scott Long <scottl@samsco.org>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, Alexander Leidinger <netchild@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, Joao Barros <joao.barros@gmail.com>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Wilko Bulte <wb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile sensorsd.conf src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/rc.d Makefile sensorsd src/lib/libc/gen sysctl.3 src/sbin/sysctl sysctl.8 sysctl.c src/share/man/man5 rc.conf.5 src/share/man/man9 Makefile sensor_attach.9 src/sys/conf f 
Message-ID:  <2571.1192483864@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:26:38 %2B0100." <20071015221917.X9055@fledge.watson.org> 

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In message <20071015221917.X9055@fledge.watson.org>, Robert Watson writes:

>> Wait please. It was on the ides list before the soc and during the soc.
>> There where links to an overview and to source files.
>
>This is precisely why I've been concerned about the way things get randomly 
>put in the ideas list--something I've e-mailed you about many times.  People 
>take it to represent a list of things we want, and frequently, items on the 
>list are not things that we want.  Sometimes they are things that should be 
>looked at, and perhaps used or perhaps not, but often they are things 
>apparently hoovered up off a mailing list without thinking about whether they 
>are actually a good idea, and without talking to developers who have expertise 
>in the area they relate to.

This is exactly why I stopped maintaining the JKH list long time ago.

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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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