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

[Wilko Bulte]

On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 04:36:09PM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> 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...  :)

Said the mouse to the cat..

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