Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 00:23:59 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>, chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT access Message-ID: <20000626002359.A64996@orange> In-Reply-To: <3953360A.56631139@newsguy.com>; from Daniel C. Sobral on Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:03:54PM %2B0900 References: <200006210653.XAA20267@freefall.freebsd.org> <3953360A.56631139@newsguy.com>
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On Fri, Jun 23, 2000 at 07:03:54PM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
>
> Would our estimate japanese committers please settle on a standard for
> names?
Here in the Engineering Science (previously Engineering Physics)
program at UoT, we've toyed with the idea of getting-rid of names
altogether. Rather, people would be referred to according to their
rank within the class.
This would give me a name like "number 254"(*) or something, but that's not
the point. :) We could name people within FreeBSD according to their
order within the cvs/access file. This would make Tim van der Hoek be
known as "number 93" and Daniel C. Sobral known as "number 137".
I think this would be a good solution to our cross-cultural problems.
I think it also might reduce the number of conflicts. If I said
"Danial C. Sobral made a pretty dumb suggestion the other day", that
would certainly raise somebody's hackles. If, however, I said "Number
137 is spitting his usual drivel", that could slip right past and
nobody would notice. ;-) ;-)
(*) Actually, I think that's better than double the number of people
in the class, but that's also beside the point.
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