From owner-cvs-all Thu May 13 11:59:22 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [206.67.97.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F268A14F58; Thu, 13 May 1999 11:59:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: from localhost (billf@localhost) by jade.chc-chimes.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA05277; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:00:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:00:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Fumerola To: Archie Cobbs Cc: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com, asami@FreeBSD.org, ache@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/mail/adcomplain Makefile ports/mail/adcomplain/files md5 In-Reply-To: <199905131745.KAA28081@bubba.whistle.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 13 May 1999, Archie Cobbs wrote: > SO.... just have CVS emit a warning message when someone attempt to > commit anything explaining the situation .. eg, "If you have not been > given explicit permission to commit, press CTRL-C now!!" That could be a hack I can live with. > My point is that human error is not a resolvable problem. The system > is the problem. We should adjust the system to accomodate the humans. Human error is a quite resolvable problem. > Maybe with more 'obvious' emails to this list, or whatever. In any case, > no amount of yelling after the fact is going to prevent the same thing > from happening in the future with some new committer, etc. (1) The mail couldn't have been more obvious, without being ALL CAPS. (2) New committers recieve a neat document explaining all of these things. Whoever gives them their privledges should probably also explain these things the first time. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message