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Date:      Sat, 06 Mar 2004 11:48:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) <des@des.no>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ctau ctau.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20040306114857.jdp@polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <xzpoeraudpv.fsf@dwp.des.no>

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On 05-Mar-2004 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>> "Fix tinderbox builds" doesn't imply that the tinderbox itself is broken and 
>> that's not the impression I got at all when I read it.  We all know what the 
>> tinderbox is and the value of its service (such as finding glitches like 
>> above).  Please don't be so touchy about anything which mentions tinderbox 
>> assuming that it's being slammed when it's not.
> 
> well, given the number of "this works fine here, what is the tinderbox
> doing wrong" comments I get...

I am totally sympathetic to your position, DES!  It took me about
5 years to stop getting pissed off about all the "Latest CVSup is
totally broken!" subject lines that were actually referring to state
of the FreeBSD source tree.  Anybody doing a google search would
probably think CVSup was the shoddiest piece of software in the
world. :-(

John



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