cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks chapter.sgml

[Tom Rhodes]

On Wed, 7 May 2003 16:24:23 -0400 (EDT)
Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> On Wed, 7 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:
> 
> 
> > 	OK.  I give up.  I have answered atleast 20 mails regarding
> > 	these two commits.  If this upsets a lot of committers, than I
> > 	apologise for this well-intentioned commit of mine.
> > 
> > 	Thanks for the advise.  I will keep it in mind.
> > 	Cheers.
> 
> You've run into a bikeshed scenario: the more inconsequential the issue,
> the more people are likely to have opinions about it, and feel strongly
> that you're wrong.  Since bikeshed probabilities often decrease with a
> higher level of usefulness in a commit, you may find that focussing on
> activities with a higher usefulness measure helps with the problem.
> 
> FWIW, you're not the only committer who's discovered that minor wording
> changes from "possibly incorrect" to "possibly correct" bite off more than
> they planned for :-). 
> 

Stop looking at me...  :)

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Tom Rhodes