From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 11 2:10:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B0414D29 for ; Tue, 11 May 1999 02:07:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA30104; Tue, 11 May 1999 11:07:11 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from des) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: paul@originative.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Re: Request For Better Communications] References: <73845.926409102@zippy.cdrom.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 11 May 1999 11:07:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: "Jordan K. Hubbard"'s message of "Tue, 11 May 1999 00:51:42 -0700" Message-ID: Lines: 14 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: > > I'm sure I've seen fairings being used in commit messages recently, have we > > adopted it as part of the FreeBSD jargon, what does it mean in that context? > It's thrown out in discussion whenever a completely nonsensical > argument in one's favor(?) is called for, I.E. at the end of a really > long thread for which the outcome is no longer even cared about since > everyone is now so sick of it or in rebuttal to another nonsensical > argument ("Change the loader to look for /kernel.pl? What about fairings?"). Also, see section 12.12 of the FAQ. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message