From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 5 1:43:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8601414ED0; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:43:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thorpej@lestat.nas.nasa.gov) Received: from lestat (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.8.8/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA20816; Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:43:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199906050843.BAA20816@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> To: dyson@iquest.net Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon), Thu@apollo.backplane.com, 3@FreeBSD.ORG, Jun@FreeBSD.ORG, 1999@FreeBSD.ORG, 23.-0500@apollo.backplane.com (EST), nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matt's Commit status (was Re: 3.2-stable, panic #12) Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 01:43:31 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 5 Jun 1999 03:24:07 -0500 (EST) "John S. Dyson" wrote: > > I don't want to be a pest, because this really shouldn't be on an > > open forum. But John: I would ask you questions and the answers I > > would get would be in the form: "Nobody understands that > > code but me, don't touch what you don't understand", or "The algorithm > > is obvious from the code". This in regards to non-compartmentalized > > algorithms strewn across half a dozen source files which are almost > > universally lacking in comments of any substance. > The frustration that I was showing was a result of off the wall assertions > being made, with few coherent questions. Your questions are often > analogous to someone saying that the VM code sucks, but will you help me > with it, by teaching it to me? Oh, by the way, I haven't read the docs > that you asked me to... :-). Hows about the frustration of being asked > to review code "corrections" (or even seeing commits) that show a confusion > that would have been cleared up if the docs were read, and then time was > spent to ask questions that are backed with some initial understanding? I dunno, John. Matt's right on the ball here, from my experience. Vague non-answers seem to be your specialty. -- Jason R. Thorpe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message