Date: Sun, 03 May 1998 19:40:13 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk> Cc: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com>, Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: i386/5398 Message-ID: <1693.894249613@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 May 1998 18:59:26 %2B0200." <11689.894214766@critter.freebsd.dk>
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> Now, can we stop this futile waste of everybodys time ? Erm, now now, let's not head down the road of needless alienation here folks. We've travelled that road far too often lately as it is. :( I appreciate your zeal in closing PRs, phk, but please also understand that there are various positions on the reaction scale in between total apathy (what we mostly had before you begin seriously working on the PR database) and "I just newfs'd the partition our PR database was on. All PRs are now closed! Next?" In this case, I think that if a PR's closure is disputed to this degree by its author then the _fastest and most efficient_ thing to do is not to fight it but simply open it again and move on. On the average, most of the stale PRs you close will be met with complete indifference on the part of the original authors and in the time you spent arguing with Matt over _one_ PR here, you could probably have closed at least five others without protest. Everything I just said to Randall Hopper about needing to shrink the PR database well in mind, I still think that it's not worth fighting over them and a far saner policy from here on out would be to say "if it's dead and shows no sign of life when you shake it, bury it. If it squeals or kicks feebly, put it down and move on to the next victim." :-) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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