Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 23:24:35 -0500 From: Bosko Milekic <bmilekic@technokratis.com> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>, Chad David <davidc@acns.ab.ca>, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man7 tuning.7 Message-ID: <20011206232435.A39016@technokratis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112062230070.16311-100000@niwun.pair.com>; from silby@silby.com on Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:34:49PM -0500 References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1011206214123.33559D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <Pine.BSF.4.30.0112062230070.16311-100000@niwun.pair.com>
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On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 10:34:49PM -0500, Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Robert Watson wrote: > > > "FreeBSD 4.3 flirted with turning off IDE write caching" doesn't necessary > > come across more clearly than "In FreeBSD 4.3, we experimented with > > disabling IDE write caching by default." Optionally adding "to address > > legitimate concerns with data integrity". It's still written in an > > informal tone (use of "we", et al) but it may be more clear. It not only > > makes us look more professional, but it also makes it seems like we don't > > consider our system a joke: we didn't flirt, we weighed the choices, > > decided on something, and later changed our minds based on available > > evidence and user needs. > > Yeesh, we're getting quite uptight here. Matt's word choice was, well, > Matt's word choice because he wrote the page. While some of it may be > funny, none of it is offensive. Let's quit the nitpicking and leave it > alone unless there are technical details to be changed. I'm sure the rest > of us have better things to do. I don't get it. What's the big deal with nitpicking on something like this? If it sounds unprofessional, it certainly *should* be changed; this is a man page we're talking about, not a comment! It seems that the actual `nitpicking' is occuring in response to the commit, not in the commit itself. :-) In summary, we shouldn't be opposed to seeing other people make man pages sound more professional; the only time I would be opposed and comment on it is if someone asked me to stop whatever technical thing I'm working on so that I can "turn my man page text more professional," which clearly isn't the case here. The case here is that of someone else coming in and fixing it *for* me. How can anyone complain about that? > Mike "Silby" Silbersack Cheerio, -- Bosko Milekic bmilekic@technokratis.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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