Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:48:27 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> Cc: sheldonh@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/11987: vacation(1) documentation and error logging both suck Message-ID: <8298.929047707@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:32:01 -0400. <19990610163201.A1147@mad>
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In message <19990610163201.A1147@mad>, you wrote: >Anyways, I'll reopen the PR and assign it to myself in a moment. I >can't promise you that I'll get to it anytime soon... OK. >FWIW, Ronald, I think it was the wording, not the content, of your >bugreport that caused both me, sheldonh, and probably a lot of other >readers, to have more-or-less the same reaction. Phrases "XXX >should be done" are the type that usually need to have their words >backed-up with code. Agreed, and I apologize. (That moment of frustration, just after you have said to yourself ``Ah ha! So THAT'S where those damn error messages went!'' is probably not the best time to write a cool and dispassionate bugreport.) >More generally, we really do need a different PR state for PRs that >have a fairly obvious solution that just needs to get coded. This Hey! It's got my vote! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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