From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 2 18:15:50 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA04080 for current-outgoing; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news.quick.net (donegan@news.quick.net [207.212.170.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA04075 for ; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:15:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from donegan@localhost) by news.quick.net (8.8.5/8.6.9) id SAA20013; Fri, 2 May 1997 18:14:24 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 18:14:24 -0700 (PDT) From: "Steven P. Donegan" To: Terry Lambert cc: jhay@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current build is now broken.. In-Reply-To: <199705030042.RAA09757@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 2 May 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > John, where I work if you bring up a 'problem' or 'issue' guess what - > > you own it. > > That must be remarkably effective in discouraging people from bringing > up problems -- no matter how critical or damaging to your employer... > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. > Not really, it tends to keep people focused on need-to-haves rather than want-to-haves. Works quite well in a team environment where everyone is already 200% overloaded. And I thought it might work with a volunteer group that is focused on producing new things that work rather than making old, now potentially obsolete, things work in somewhat weird ways. Sorry if I offended anyone. I'll keep my ideas to myself since I've now been discouraged from expressing them :-) Steven P. Donegan donegan@quick.net