cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks chapter.sgml

Robert Watson rwatson at FreeBSD.ORG
Wed May 7 13:24:17 PDT 2003


On Wed, 7 May 2003, Hiten Pandya wrote:


> 	OK.  I give up.  I have answered atleast 20 mails regarding
> 	these two commits.  If this upsets a lot of committers, than I
> 	apologise for this well-intentioned commit of mine.
> 
> 	Thanks for the advise.  I will keep it in mind.
> 	Cheers.

You've run into a bikeshed scenario: the more inconsequential the issue,
the more people are likely to have opinions about it, and feel strongly
that you're wrong.  Since bikeshed probabilities often decrease with a
higher level of usefulness in a commit, you may find that focussing on
activities with a higher usefulness measure helps with the problem.

FWIW, you're not the only committer who's discovered that minor wording
changes from "possibly incorrect" to "possibly correct" bite off more than
they planned for :-). 

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert at fledge.watson.org      Network Associates Laboratories




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