Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:42:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: doc/handbook authors.sgml contrib.sgml Message-ID: <19990508084238.A50800@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 12:10:21AM %2B0800 References: <3732EDEF.4384D214@newsguy.com> <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au>
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On Saturday, 8 May 1999 at 0:10:21 +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > "Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: >> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: >>> >>>> Uh, this is my first commit, and I have a bad feeling about the Attic par > t >>>> of the path... What did I do wrong? >>> >>> :-) It always happens on your first commit, don't sweat it. :) >>> >>> You committed to the old handbook, not Nik's new one. Where did you >>> do this? "handbook" should point to the new module now unless you've >>> had this thing checked out for a few weeks or something. :) >> >> Life is just not fair... I recall screwing up because I did the >> reverse. :-) > > Well, actually, you've discovered the secret. This is the real initiation > ritual.. We set the candidate committers up to have a screw-up and see if > they have a thick enough skin to handle it gracefully. If they can, then > the odds are they will be able to handle something tougher like an adverse > bde review without taking it too personally. :-) Have any others managed to get you to do it for them? Background: I did my first commit at the AUUG meeting in Sydney, with Peter looking over my shoulder. Together we managed to commit an Emacs core file :-) It was convenient to have somebody on hand who could just go in there and remove all trace again. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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