> Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2018 14:53:36 +0100 > From: Alexander Nasonov <al...@yandex.ru> > > Taylor R Campbell wrote: > > One connotation of `hi dev@' may be `dev@ is an idiot'; it can be > > offputting -- and it's not really necessary to call them out publicly. > > Sometimes dev@ has a rapport with the committer and will take it as > > good-natured, but a passive observer can't tell the difference between > > one colleague joshing another and someone saying `you're an idiot and > > I cleaned up your mess'. > > Module Name: src > Committed By: riastradh > Date: Thu Aug 14 16:26:21 UTC 2014 > > Modified Files: > src/distrib/sets/lists/modules: md.amd64 > > Log Message: > Add dtrace modules to amd64-xen module set list. Hi [redacted]! > > There is at least one more commit with 'hi dev@' from you.
Guilty as charged! But halfway between then and now, a private discussion about the connotations I hadn't considered changed my mind over whether to write notes like that.