Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 16:48:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/11934: Port of GNU Nana 2.4 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906071643250.679-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <28487.928787841@axl.noc.iafrica.com>
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On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Mon, 07 Jun 1999 16:18:23 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > You know, these guys aren't committers. I'm not sure you're doing folks > > a real service by telling them to go back and try again. > > I can see you've never had the character-building pleasure of > apprenticeship under markm. ;-) > > > I think you are raising the contribution level too high here. > > Duly noted. I just assumed that all the committers shared Mark's > ruthless attitude toward failure to read instructions. But given your > feedback, I'll back off. Well, I think the answer probably comes in the middle. You want to educate these folks, so you do tell them where they've screwed up. At least for me, I correct whatever I find in the first 15 minutes, but I always let them know what was wrong. If it takes longer than that (minus fetch and build time) they've gotten it pretty badly messed up, and the blunt object approach is then good. You want to tell folks everything they do wrong, always, or they'll never learn, but you fix it yourself once for each type of error. If they do anything twice, instant death. Politely, of course, but it's part of the learning process. Like I said, a balance between being too harsh and being too picky, but for the right reasons. > > Thanks for the input. > > Ciao, > Sheldon. > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and jaunt, both FreeBSD-current. (301) 220-2114 | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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