On Aug 22, 2010, at 2:16 PM, Doug Barton wrote: > On 08/22/2010 12:42, M. Warner Losh wrote: > >> I think you're drawing the wrong conclusion here. > > Doubtful. :) > >> My point is that we have trusted folks in the past to do the right >> thing, even when they don't say they will. > > And my point, which I will make one last time, is that this model hasn't > worked. Yes, it works sometimes, but we still have a bunch of stuff that > doesn't have _any_ man page at all. If we want to continue the transition to > being a more professional OS that isn't acceptable. > > I've already made the points about why working through the documentation > _before_ committing is valuable, and that the simple step of requiring this > is an easy way to make sure the problem we have doesn't get any worse. > Clearly there isn't a lot of sympathy for either of these perspectives in the > wider community, so c'est la vie. > > But I was serious about my other comment, if you(pl.) are not willing to make > a change to improve the situation, you lose the right to complain down the > road when the man pages don't magically appear. > >> towards Ann > > Wrong name. :) >
Doug, you're being a grade-A asshole in this entire discussion. The merits of your argument are being completely overshadowed by your patronizing attitude and over the top straw-man extremism. Ana deserves an apology from you, and you would do well to consider apologizing to everyone involved. Scott _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
