Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 22:53:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks chapter.sgml Message-ID: <20030507205323.GA94575@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030507163609.61cb1de4.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> References: <20030507182528.GA91008@perrin.int.nxad.com> <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1030507162232.65817b-100000@fledge.watson.org> <20030507163609.61cb1de4.trhodes@FreeBSD.org>
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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:36:09PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2003 16:24:23 -0400 (EDT) > Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > > > > > OK. I give up. I have answered atleast 20 mails regarding > > > these two commits. If this upsets a lot of committers, than I > > > apologise for this well-intentioned commit of mine. > > > > > > Thanks for the advise. I will keep it in mind. > > > Cheers. > > > > You've run into a bikeshed scenario: the more inconsequential the issue, > > the more people are likely to have opinions about it, and feel strongly > > that you're wrong. Since bikeshed probabilities often decrease with a > > higher level of usefulness in a commit, you may find that focussing on > > activities with a higher usefulness measure helps with the problem. > > > > FWIW, you're not the only committer who's discovered that minor wording > > changes from "possibly incorrect" to "possibly correct" bite off more than > > they planned for :-). > > > > Stop looking at me... :) Said the mouse to the cat.. -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
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