Digs at other committers
Scott Long
scottl at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 20 01:09:29 GMT 2004
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Friday, 19 November 2004 at 16:39:21 -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
>
>>On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:51:48PM -0700, Scott Long wrote:
>>
>>>>obrien 2004-11-19 18:24:51 UTC
>>>> FreeBSD src repository
>>>> Modified files:
>>>> share/man/man4 Makefile
>>>> Added files:
>>>> share/man/man4 hptmv.4
>>>> Log:
>>>> Man page for the HighPoint RocketRAID 182x driver.
>>>> Forgotten by: scottl
>>>> Revision Changes Path
>>>> 1.293 +1 -0 src/share/man/man4/Makefile
>>>> 1.1 +82 -0 src/share/man/man4/hptmv.4 (new)
>>>
>>>I don't appreciate the dig here. At no time did you ever
>>>contact me to help on this or offer anything for review. It's
>>>great that you went ahead and did this, but these little digs
>>>in your commit mails are getting quite tiring.
>>
>>Forgotten by's are nothing new. No new drivers should be committed
>>without a man page documenting what it is. We often look down on Linux
>>because they don't have a complete set of man pages.
>>You had two people publicly ask you to write up a simple man page after
>>you committed the driver. I didn't pass it by you for review because why
>>would I think you were interested if you wouldn't spend the 5 minutes
>>writing even a basic simple man page??
>
>
> They way the commit message reads, it's a deliberate dig at Scott. I
> can't see any advantage in that.
>
> Greg
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Let's just let this die. I've made my feelings known to David, and he's
made his point.
Scott
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