From owner-cvs-all Tue May 15 20:45:13 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDE1C37B422; Tue, 15 May 2001 20:45:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (robert@fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id f4G3ZAf97104; Tue, 15 May 2001 23:35:10 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:35:09 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Mixtim Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP: DEVFS options have changed (was : cvs commit: src/sys/conf files options src/sys/alpha/conf GENERIC src/sys/i386/conf GENERIC NEWCARD NOTES src/sys/ia64/conf GENERIC src/sys/pc98/conf GENERI In-Reply-To: <20010514172953.B85839@home.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 14 May 2001, Mixtim wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 12:30:58PM -0400, Robert Watson wrote: > > Yes, people tracking -CURRENT should read both the freebsd-current mailing > > list and the commit messages, but in practice there may be a lag between > > the message being posted and everyone getting to read it. > > Did you think that statement through? You have to actually compile and > install new changes before they become active. So, while it may take a > day or two to get caught up on your email, as long as you start the > compile/install AFTER you finish reading then you won't be suprised. > > Now if you compile/install and only THEN read your email then yes, you > will shoot your leg off. But then its your fault now isn't it. Welcome to reality: not everyone has time read a thousand messages when they go away for three days. All we're asking here is that when people commit stumbling blocks (on purpose or by accident) to the tree, they attempt to make this easily distinguishable from the normal flow of messages so that everyone's life is easier. This allows us to concentrate on getting the real work done (that is, new development and quality improvement), rather than spending our entire time stubbing our toes. Otherwise, you're just wasting people's time. I assure you, if the focus of the project were to become wasting time, there would be lots of other places for developers to go. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message