Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 06:00:46 -0700 (PDT) From: bf <bf2006a@yahoo.com> To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Cc: svn-src-all@freebsd.org, markm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r192774 - head/sys/dev/random Message-ID: <599491.72139.qm@web39108.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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--- On Mon, 5/25/09, Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote: > From: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> > Subject: Re: svn commit: r192774 - head/sys/dev/random > To: cvs-all@freebsd.org > Cc: "bf" <bf2006a@yahoo.com>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, markm@freebsd.org > Date: Monday, May 25, 2009, 10:45 PM > On Tue, 26 May 2009, bf wrote: > > > Log: > > >=A0 =A0 There is rubbish here > > >=A0 =A0 It is now time to take it out > > >=A0 =A0 Now it is cleaner > > > > There is indeed rubbish here.=A0 If you are going > to > > write doggerel for commit messages, could you at > > least make the messages succinct and informative? >=20 > Obviously artistic appreciation is a dying art. >=20 > Posters to email lists > Can sometimes be very impolite > Appreciate developers! >=20 > (Hmm I suck at Haikus) >=20 Poetry, in the hands of anyone but a genius, does not lend itself to the concise conveyance of technical details that is supposed to be found in a commit log message. Most poetasters become more concerned with their prosody than with the content of their message, with unfortunate consequences. Happily for them, there is still Crambo, and the vanity publishing industry (which is now cheaper than ever before with the Web.) Your friendly neighborhood Philistine, b.=0A=0A=0A
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