From owner-freebsd-current Sun May 14 22:15:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3403337B58F for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 22:15:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from smarter.than.nu (as3-2-83.HIP.Berkeley.EDU [136.152.194.197]) by soda.csua.Berkeley.edu (8.8.8/) via ESMTP id WAA12009; Sun, 14 May 2000 22:15:30 -0700 (PDT) env-from (brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:15:12 -0700 (PDT) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: Greg Lehey Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Breaking "build world" costs $5? (was: Can we please have a current that compiles?) In-Reply-To: <20000515133535.E541@freebie.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 15 May 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > I see this money scheme as an extension of the "finger pointing" > > which does nothing to build team spirit. > > That depends very much on the way it's taken. At the moment, people > take the pointy hat voluntarily, not because it's forced on them. > It's my expectation that the $5 should be in the the same spirit. Exactly... it's not meant to be a complicated system of fines or to discourage people from developing (at Desktop, we certainly don't want that!), it's just a little bit of good-natured public humiliation to encourage people to think (and maybe test) before they commit. :-) - Brian Buchanan brian@desktop.com brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message