On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:43:46 +0100, Rich Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> You scale an organisation, I understand, by removing the *need* for > everyone in it to be a genius at everything it does. > Hence the comment about the US army: "designed by genius to be run > by sergeants". Ah yes. How does one handle long open unreproducible bugs after a few releases -- the work requiring genius. Who am I to stand in the way of changing times? Since I have been around longer than most people in Debian, here is my terribly clever best practice for a critical process that debian developers are supposed to practice frequently -- very frequently (the recommended rate is about 15-20 repetitions per minute), namely, breathing. That this is a critical process is clearly demonstrable, and that there needs to be strict guidelines on the rate at which it is practiced is also of prime importance. Raising the rate too high results in a deprecated condition called "hyper ventilating". The side effects can be light headedness -- consider the harm if the entire project failed to follow the guidelines. The effects on the project can be even more pronounced if a majority of the developers were so lax as to not practice this activity for even as short an interval as, say, 5 to 10 minutes. The effects would be felt even more in small teams, like, say, security, or ftp-masters, if they grow this lax. So, having given the rationale for the importance of this best practices document snippet, allow me to present the best practice itself: (details in http://www.mtsu.edu/~jshardo/bly2020/respiratory/ventilation.html) At the start of the cycle, remember to relax the Dome-shaped skeletal muscle that forms floor of thoracic cavity. Diaphragm relaxes & shortens pleural cavities, thus decreasing intrathoracic volume. Lungs elastically recoil, chest wall & abdominal organs help compress lungs, increasing alveolar pressure & air flows out. External intercostals relax, ribs & sternum move downward & inward, decreases anterior-posterior diameter. Air flows out. This is a Passive process. Hold for a short time. Due to the recomeded period of this activity, it is not recommended that you hold for more than a second or so. Contraction of diaphragm causes it to flatten & lengthen the pleural cavities, thus increasing intrathoracic volume. Lungs expand, decreasing alveolar pressure within lungs & atmospheric air flows in. Contraction of external intercostal muscles pull ribs & sternum upward & outward, increases anterior-posterior thoracic diameter by 20%. Air flows in. This is the active part of the process. It is imperative that Debian developers remember to invoke this active process several times a minute. Laxity in this can severely hurt the project. Indeed, failure to follow this policy may result in an RC bug or orphaning of all the packages held by the lax developer. manoj -- Just remember: when you go to court, you are trusting your fate to twelve people that weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty! Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://www.debian.org/%7Esrivasta/> 1024D/BF24424C print 4966 F272 D093 B493 410B 924B 21BA DABB BF24 424C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]