Digs at other committers (was: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile hptmv.4)

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Sat Nov 20 01:04:35 GMT 2004


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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