From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 29 13:23:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA24400 for current-outgoing; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hwcn.org (ac199@james.hwcn.org [199.212.94.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA24366 for ; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 13:23:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hoek@hwcn.org) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by hwcn.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA06218; Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:18:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 1998 16:18:56 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Nate Williams cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: gnu/usr.bin/cvs/libdiff In-Reply-To: <199801281941.MAA05552@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > Actually, not completely. There are some that simply build things, but > the 'new thinking' is that workers who understand the build process are > more effecient/better than workers who just tighten bolts. Also, there > are *always* workers who understand the entire build process when things > go wrong (which they do). The new thinking also says that workers should be freed (by capital investment in new machinary) to do creative work. Unless jump-starting the build process is considered creative work, then the analogy suggests that the build should be as automatic as possible. (The workers you refer to who always know the entire build process are referred to here as "release engineers"). -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk