Date: Thu, 05 Feb 1998 18:35:32 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans), cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-sys@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 pmap.c src/sys/i386/include vmparam.h src/sys/kern kern_exec.c kern_malloc.c kern_subr.c vfs_s Message-ID: <304.886732532@gringo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 05 Feb 1998 11:16:22 EST." <199802051616.LAA01034@dyson.iquest.net>
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> Please Bruce, I put alot of effort into this stuff, and if you want > me to stop, I will. You can then participate in a stagnent effort. Oh dear, I just knew this was going to happen when I saw Bruce's message. John, I don't think that Bruce quite meant to sound as harsh as he did; he sometimes confuses "helpful" with "anally retentive" and I think all of us have fired a few arrows at him one time or another for sending us 2 page descriptions of a fix where the fix would have occupied a quarter page. I think he was a computer science professor in a past (or current) life and he can't help it - it's ingrained behavior. ;-) That said, I really do appreciate the fact that we have "a Bruce" on our team since he's also been an important asset and sometimes it's *good* to have someone who really keenly reviews things. It certainly helps me to sleep better at night knowing that if someone ever does commit a serious error, it's more than likely that Bruce will review and catch it. You can't hardly *pay* for that kind of aggressive review and if it's sometimes overly aggressive, it's far better to simply say "Bruce has crossed the line on this one, I think I'll just ignore it" rather than say or do anything which might cause Bruce to check a little less thoroughly in the future. I truly appreciate the feedback that I get from Bruce, and if he starts ragging me about whitespace changes or something else that I consider beneath my attention given all the other things I have on my TODO list, I just smile and whap "delete" rather than flame Bruce for it. :-) Jordan
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