cvs commit: src/tools/tools/tinderbox/etc current.rc head.rc update_current.rc update_head.rc

John Baldwin jhb at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 22 19:41:14 GMT 2005


On Thursday 21 July 2005 06:08 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 05:26:11PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote..
>
> > On Thursday 21 July 2005 04:39 pm, Liam J. Foy wrote:
> > > On Thu(21)/Jul/05 - , Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote:
> > > > "Liam J. Foy" <liamfoy at sepulcrum.org> writes:
> > > > > On Thu(21)/Jul/05 - , Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > > > > Please add ia64 back for releng_6 and add powerpc and ia64 back
> > > > > > for head. The least.
> > > > >
> > > > > I agree. I'd like to see them added back please.
> > > >
> > > > You don't have a vote.  Neither does Marcel.
> > >
> > > Who do you think you are DES? Seriously, am sure you think you're above
> > > everyone else. You need to dumb the attitude.
> >
> > It would be helpful to realize that DES does not have an infinite amount
> > of hardware and bandwidth, etc. at his disposal.  The tinderbox scripts
> > are in CVS, and you are free to setup any number of tinderboxes that you
> > wish to have on your _own_ hardware.  In other words, if we want to keep
> > doing powerpc and ia64 tinderboxes (which I think would certainly be
> > desirable) we need to find someone with some hardware to run it on.
> >
> > <rant>
> > In other words again: instead of mouthing off at DES like some two year
> > old when his mommy takes away the toy he was borrowing from someone else
> > so she can give it back to the original owner, go setup a machine and run
> > the powerpc and ia64 tinderbox on it yourself sending out the e-mails to
> > the appropriate lists, etc.  This is a community project, and when the
> > load for a specific task gets too high for one person/machine to handle,
> > we ought to be chipping into help share the load instead of beating up on
> > the person who's been doing it all by themselves up until now.  <grump>
> > </rant>
>
> <rant>
> Public/commiter relations go a long way.  If there are not enough resources
> available of some sort the obvious cause of action would be to ask for
> resources.  Not to just axe things with a commit message that inevitably
> leads to this kind of silly debate.
>
> </rant>

True enough, but unfortunately some folks don't always act like fully mature 
adults and things will go a lot smoother if people will get some thicker skin 
and try to solve the real problems instead of yelling at each other.  
Granted, I yelled, but in <rant> tags to make it clear at least. :)

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