From owner-cvs-all Fri Sep 14 21:36: 9 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F104337B410; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 21:36:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id DC8AC6AD74; Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:06:19 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 14:06:19 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Paul Richards , David O'Brien , Warner Losh , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pccard pccard.c pcic.c pcic_pci.c pcicvar.h Message-ID: <20010915140619.F26074@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <200109130826.f8D8QtY18779@freefall.freebsd.org> <1121080000.1000369966@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913033008.A7016@dragon.nuxi.com> <1164990000.1000377601@lobster.originative.co.uk> <20010913035412.B7016@dragon.nuxi.com> <20010913130842.A70762@fump.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> <2340000.1000379606@lobster.originative.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from drosih@rpi.edu on Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 03:43:35PM -0400 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 13 September 2001 at 15:43:35 -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:13 PM +0100 9/13/01, Paul Richards wrote: >> I was not critising the substantive part of the commit message, which was >> fine, it was the noise before and after it. >> >> Our commit messages are way better than some of the other projects, but >> they won't stay way better unless we keep up our standards. > > I would generally agree with this sentiment, but this is not the > best week to be obsessed about improved commit messages. Last week, > yes, I would agree with you. This week, I don't see any harm at all, > to us or to future generations, if a little comic relief happens to > be included in a few commit messages. Commit messages aren't just for this week. Yes, it's been a bad time. When somebody sees this commit message in two years' time, what will he think of? I think he'll understand that working on FreeBSD was fun then. I hope it will be in two years' time as well. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message