Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:34 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net> Subject: Attitude problems? (was: cvs commit: src/tools/debugscripts README kgdb kld_deb.py) Message-ID: <20040810041634.GV44716@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040804201627.GA991@funkthat.com> References: <200408041803.i74I3hW3032824@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040804200237.GA9720@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net> <20040804201627.GA991@funkthat.com>
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--E8vXRijW3SOTujIP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday, 4 August 2004 at 13:16:27 -0700, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar wrote this message on Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 13:02 -0700: >>> add a set of scripts that I posted to -current last year. This makes > > [...] > >> They are mostly useless with gdb6, because support is already (partially) >> in kgdb(1) and what is not there yet is already planned. I don't mind >> that you commit these scripts, but the last sentence is crucial: it >> means that there's more unfinished stuff in the repository that needs >> attention to complete and thereby distracting attention away from where >> it's really needed. Your time would also be spent in a more focussed and >> constructive way if you would have add some of the features to kgdb(1). > > Umm.. I did all the work a year ago... I didn't "waste" my time as > you seem to imply since it only took three minutes or so to commit them.. > > I don't have a problem having them removed once support in kgdb(1) (8?), > has been completed... > > We probably spent more time typing these two messages than it took me > to commit the scripts... > > It was requested of me to commit these the other day when I mentioned > them to another committer (who I don't remeber right now). > >> If you want to help out, make sure you help doing things that need to >> be done. > > Make sure you don't discourage people from working to improve > FreeBSD. Indeed. Marcel, it would have been easy to tell John-Mark what kind of work *would* be useful. Although I suspect that what you're doing is excellent and a great improvement on what we have (certainly on my debug scripts), my interaction with you has left me wondering if I care any more. Greg -- Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --E8vXRijW3SOTujIP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBGEwiIubykFB6QiMRAiwfAJ9GpkunAKuTLREKBe9IJT5EdcD3ZQCgpfUD TutN6dEUQWVIq7Fir52v9+4= =XSRX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --E8vXRijW3SOTujIP--
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