Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 02:08:13 +1030 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>, jb@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc Makefile Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.05.9812140157560.30635-100000@bragg> In-Reply-To: <199812131525.RAA19421@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Mark Murray wrote: > If you are reading cvs-all intelligently, I suppose it comes to the same > thing. > > The raised objection is about the hordes who _don't_, and then whine > when they don't take a change into account "because nobody told them". Yup. The suggested change might (maybe) fix that, but it would also disenfranchise legitimate users of -current. As a counter-suggestion: how about just responding with a suitable form letter to the people who are obviously out of their depth with clueless questions (this might already be done now). We shouldn't be rude to people who upgrade before their time, but they should be made aware that -current isn't an appropriate target to track if they have to ask naive questions. Alternative suggestion: make the relevant section of the FAQ more fearsome to discourage people from making the leap unless they're really confident of their skills (presumably, these people read some kind of documentation to figure out how to do it). Or turn the instructions on how to update to -current into a puzzle of some kind which requires some application of skill to unravel :) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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