From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 3 05:32:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA09964 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:32:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sonata.hh.kew.com (kendra.ne.mediaone.net [24.128.94.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA09940 for ; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 05:32:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from software@kew.com) Received: from ffactory.uucp.kew.com (ffactory.hh.kew.com [192.168.203.131]) by sonata.hh.kew.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id IAA18307; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:31:01 -0400 (EDT) Received: from kew.com by ffactory.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13d) with UUCP for multiple addressees; Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:31:01 -0500 Received: from kew.com by ffactory.uucp.kew.com (UUPC/extended 1.13d) with ESMTP for multiple addresses; Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:30:59 -0500 Message-ID: <35EE8C03.788874BE@kew.com> Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:30:59 -0400 From: Drew Derbyshire Organization: Kendra Electronic Wonderworks, Stoneham, MA 02180 (http://www.kew.com) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Requisite steps for tracking -stable References: <5312.904715722@time.cdrom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > >The reason I gave up my commit privs without ever having committed anything is > >all the time I would have spent hacking FreeBSD I spent reading the CVS logs. > > Unfortunate, and perhaps a requirement, but true. > > Gosh, I wonder how the other 100+ committers seem to manage it. :-) I didn't find this especially funny, especially since I would have preferred to contribute more than I did. I presume the ways to manage it varies: For some, FreeBSD is their only (or main) personal project For some, they paid by their employers to keep up on it. A few (I suspect), don't have a life. A few (I suspect), don't read most of the logs I fall into none of those classes. -ahd- -- Drew Derbyshire UUPC/extended e-mail: software@kew.com Telephone: 617-279-9812 PhD. Biologists cause cancer in laboratory rats. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message