From owner-cvs-all Fri May 7 16:12:57 1999 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3AC41501E; Fri, 7 May 1999 16:12:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id IAA04382; Sat, 8 May 1999 08:42:41 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id IAA51262; Sat, 8 May 1999 08:42:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:42:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Peter Wemm Cc: "Daniel C. Sobral" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Jason Evans , 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> References: <3732EDEF.4384D214@newsguy.com> <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <19990507161023.1B20B1F74@spinner.netplex.com.au>; from Peter Wemm on Sat, May 08, 1999 at 12:10:21AM +0800 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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