Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 11:31:01 GMT From: James Raynard <fhackers@jraynard.demon.co.uk> To: gpalmer@freebsd.org, msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs-cur-2135 Message-ID: <199606201131.LAA01563@jraynard.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199606200333.NAA05031@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> (message from Michael Smith on Thu, 20 Jun 1996 13:03:08 %2B0930 (CST))
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> > Is there anyone else in the slow lane of the information superhighway > > who finds the recent series of enormous CTM deltas somewhat annoying? > > (winds sarcasm control to 11) What was that about sarcasm being the lowest form of wit? > Gee, yes! Let's just stop the development of FreeBSD so that these people > can reduce their mail load! I'm sorry that the only kind of response people seem to be capable of is a sneering "what did you expect, get out of the kitchen if you can't stand the heat". I am fully aware that keeping up to date with -current involves some means of getting the source onto my system, and I have been perfectly happy to ftp down one or two 5-10kB deltas (or the occasional 50-100k one) while my mail's being delivered. In fact this has worked extremely well so far and I really appreciate being able to do this. However, things have been rather different over the past few days:- -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 896758 Jun 18 23:06 cvs-cur.2133.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james staff 3838 Jun 18 23:04 cvs-cur.2134.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 1796061 Jun 20 09:46 cvs-cur.2135.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 3885 Jun 19 20:36 cvs-cur.2136.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 14556 Jun 19 20:37 cvs-cur.2137.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 3322 Jun 19 20:39 cvs-cur.2138.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 james wheel 410260 Jun 20 09:48 cvs-cur.2139.gz I accept that these things are necessary from time to time as part of building a better and brighter FreeBSD future and am well aware that running -current, and having commit privileges, is not a free lunch. Unfortunately I don't have an income at the moment and can't afford to subsidise British Telecom in this way. I'm aware that there are many other people who have poor connectivity as well, but I for one will have to seriously consider giving up on -current if this continues on a regular basis. However, I hope we've now turned the corner on this. > ...and you certainly haven't been contributing to these deltas now have you? I most certainly have not been making any multi-megabyte commits. If you made a CTM delta out of all the commits I've ever made, I'd be astonished if it came to over 10k. > (Yes, I wear several hours of sup a week over a slow and laggy modem link, > and I _do_ appreciate your work 8) Thank you. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
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