From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Mar 1 12: 9: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.hcisp.net (Stargate.hcisp.net [208.60.89.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D594337BB3F for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2000 12:08:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tim@mysql.com) Received: (qmail 10871 invoked from network); 1 Mar 2000 20:14:37 -0000 Received: from modem5.hcisp.net (HELO threads.polyesthetic.msg) (208.60.89.71) by stargate.hcisp.net with SMTP; 1 Mar 2000 20:14:37 -0000 Received: (qmail 23854 invoked by uid 1001); 1 Mar 2000 20:08:10 -0000 From: "Thimble Smith" Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 15:08:10 -0500 To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: showstopper Message-ID: <20000301150810.J6645@threads.polyesthetic.msg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The word "showstopper" has shown up quite a few times on -current recently, in reference to various problems that absolutely must be fixed before 4.0 can be released. But I just have to let this out; a "showstopper" is something really *good*, not something really bad. I should say that the work that's been done on NFS is a real showstopper. The threads package is a showstopper. I just think it'll be too bad if we lose that word entirely from the English language. It's such a nice thing, I think it's tragic for it to get smeared like that. Thanks for listening, Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message