[CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)
Nathan Whitehorn
nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Wed Apr 20 04:11:42 UTC 2016
On 04/19/16 21:07, Glen Barber wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 06:59:38AM +0300, dan_partelly wrote:
>>> Sadly the tenor and tone of the discussion isn’t one where progress is
>>> made. The tone has been a bit toxic and demanding, which grinds people
>> into
>>> dust, rather than motivating them to fix things. You might call it a
>>> discussion, but it reads to me more as a bunch of angry villagers
>> storming
>>> the castle. No good can come from that. Tone down the outrage by a
>> factor
>>> of 100 and try to have the conversation again.
>>>
>> I'm frankly perplexed by this statement. Its seldom I perceived so much
>> sorrow and bitterness in 6 lines. There is no castle Warner, unless you
>> want one to exist, one where you can isolate yourself from the indentured
>> peasants and anything they say. Beyond your thick walls you'll be well
>> served,
>> every idea outside your wals will be toned down by a factor of 100 by the
>> time
>> it reaches the lord, becoming total agreement with anything the lord
>> thinks.
>>
>> I cant believe I wrote this shit. But then again, I cant believe you just
>> wrote
>> what you did.
>>
> And it's responses like this that are severely demotivating.
>
> Glen
>
Yes, this is not helpful. Talking about walls and lords and whatever can
only make people angry (or demotivated) and is never persuasive. This is
really great work; there is a discussion about some nits in how to
distribute the results that corresponds to maybe 1% of the total patch.
-Nathan
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