Wordpress outputs an empty page after ports upgrade

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Tue Jul 20 21:20:36 UTC 2010


On 07/20/2010 14:07, Doug Barton wrote:
>> You are really reading much more into my message than was actually 
>> put there.
>
> That's not hard to do. :)  I chose to read that part of your message 
> as if you had said, "Dear FreeBSD ports committers. In trying to 
> contact the maintainer to report the problem I'm seeing with wordpress 
> the e-mail that I sent to him bounced. Knowing the hard work that you 
> already put into the ports system, and appreciating the consistently 
> high standards with which you do this work, I am sure that you would 
> want to know about this problem, and take steps to rectify it at your 
> earliest convenience."
>
> Now I'm _not_ suggesting that every user who pings us about a bouncing 
> e-mail address should have to write it out like that. But considering 
> that I was lucky enough to have been born in the place whose language 
> has become the more or less "lowest common denominator" for 
> communication on the Internet I choose to always give people the 
> benefit of the doubt. That's also why my own messages tend to be 
> overly verbose, in that I try to make sure that I'm communicating in a 
> way that cannot be misunderstood (even though I frequently fail).
>

:-)
Sounds good! I will increase the verbosity level of my messages in the 
future to the degree that the aforementioned misinterpretations 
likelihood would reduce to the degree satisfactory to all participants 
of the communication process.

Yuri


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