From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jun 25 21:22:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts2.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F6E537B74E; Sun, 25 Jun 2000 21:22:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hoek@FreeBSD.org) Received: from orange ([207.236.124.158]) by tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000626042227.REOC19472.tomts2-srv.bellnexxia.net@orange>; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:22:27 -0400 Received: (from tim@localhost) by orange (8.9.3/8.9.1) id AAA76197; Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:24:01 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:23:59 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: Warner Losh , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20000626002359.A64996@orange> References: <200006210653.XAA20267@freefall.freebsd.org> <3953360A.56631139@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <3953360A.56631139@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:03:54PM +0900 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [-committers -> -chat] On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:03:54PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > > Would our estimate japanese committers please settle on a standard for > names? Here in the Engineering Science (previously Engineering Physics) program at UoT, we've toyed with the idea of getting-rid of names altogether. Rather, people would be referred to according to their rank within the class. This would give me a name like "number 254"(*) or something, but that's not the point. :) We could name people within FreeBSD according to their order within the cvs/access file. This would make Tim van der Hoek be known as "number 93" and Daniel C. Sobral known as "number 137". I think this would be a good solution to our cross-cultural problems. I think it also might reduce the number of conflicts. If I said "Danial C. Sobral made a pretty dumb suggestion the other day", that would certainly raise somebody's hackles. If, however, I said "Number 137 is spitting his usual drivel", that could slip right past and nobody would notice. ;-) ;-) (*) Actually, I think that's better than double the number of people in the class, but that's also beside the point. -- Signature withheld by request of author. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message