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Date:      Sun, 07 Mar 2004 01:33:35 -0800
From:      Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ctau ctau.c
Message-ID:  <404AEC6F.5070103@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20040306114857.jdp@polstra.com>
References:  <XFMail.20040306114857.jdp@polstra.com>

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John Polstra wrote:
> On 05-Mar-2004 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> 
>>John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
>>
>>>"Fix tinderbox builds" doesn't imply that the tinderbox itself is broken and 
>>>that's not the impression I got at all when I read it.  We all know what the 
>>>tinderbox is and the value of its service (such as finding glitches like 
>>>above).  Please don't be so touchy about anything which mentions tinderbox 
>>>assuming that it's being slammed when it's not.
>>
>>well, given the number of "this works fine here, what is the tinderbox
>>doing wrong" comments I get...
> 
> 
> I am totally sympathetic to your position, DES!  It took me about
> 5 years to stop getting pissed off about all the "Latest CVSup is
> totally broken!" subject lines that were actually referring to state
> of the FreeBSD source tree. 

Same problem here with mergemaster, but I decided to learn from your
example John, and not get pissed off about it in the first place. :)

Doug

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