From owner-cvs-all Mon Nov 19 13: 4:44 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com [24.176.204.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A885337B418; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:04:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAJL4Na97591; Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200111192104.fAJL4Na97591@c527597-a.cstvl1.sfba.home.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Michael Lucas Cc: Wilko Bulte , Dan Langille , Will Andrews , "Bruce A. Mah" , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq book.sgml In-Reply-To: <20011119155303.A94310@blackhelicopters.org> References: <20011119202032.A4448@freebie.xs4all.nl>; <20011119144504.A93732@blackhelicopters.org> <3BF91B89.16262.63DD19B@localhost> <20011119210043.A4853@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20011119155303.A94310@blackhelicopters.org> Comments: In-reply-to Michael Lucas message dated "Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:53:03 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.org X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1962089653P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:04:23 -0800 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 --==_Exmh_-1962089653P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Michael Lucas wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 09:00:43PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > Seriously, why not? > > > > Mainly a gut reaction. I've been puttering around free software for > years, and the FreeBSD folks are definitely the best of the best. > (No, I'm not trying to butter you folks up, that's my honest opinion.) > I've always thought of committers are these deitylike beings with an > unparallelled ability technical ability, able to save or damn users > with a very few well-placed keystrokes. I instinctively recoil > against counting myself as one of the best of just about anything, > especially in the Internet era when I'm competing against everyone in > the world. It's great that you think so highly of us committer-types, but for the most part (save for some people who I *would* nominate for diety-like status), we're just "regular guys, working hard". [1] [2] > Oh, WTF, you're right, why not? If the folks who close my PRs are for > it, I'm game. I'm definitely for it (and I've closed way too many of your PRs!)...watch your inbox for future messages... Bruce. [1] Phrase stolen shamelessly from the Blue Angels. [2] "Guys" meant, of course, in a non-gender-specific way. --==_Exmh_-1962089653P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7+XPW2MoxcVugUsMRArAvAJwO3rv6vgHKodAOMIqe7yiHY0qXZACgzM2C cNCf2Ati26FVsI4CDf0aUOE= =U7Ok -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1962089653P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message