svn commit: r348090 - in head/libexec/bootpd: . bootpgw

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 08:48 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 09:25:23PM -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > > > Author: markj
> > > > Date: Wed May 22 04:13:57 2019
> > > > New Revision: 348090
> > > > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/348090
> > > > 
> > > > Log:
> > > >   Marginally improve usage() message style in bootpd.
> > > >   
> > > >   - Remove an extra space after "usage:".
> > > >   - Avoid lines exceeding 80 columns.
> > > >   
> > > >   Based on notes from rgrimes.
> > > 
> > > Thanks, but you missed an important aspect of those notes,
> > > see inline below.
> > > 
> > > >   
> > > >   MFC with:	r348066
> > > >   Event:		Waterloo Hackathon 2019
> > > > 
> > > > Modified:
> > > >   head/libexec/bootpd/bootpd.c
> > > >   head/libexec/bootpd/bootpgw/bootpgw.c
> > > > 
> > > > Modified: head/libexec/bootpd/bootpd.c
> > > > ===============================================================
> > > > ===============
> > > > --- head/libexec/bootpd/bootpd.c	Wed May 22 04:10:24
> > > > 2019	(r348089)
> > > > +++ head/libexec/bootpd/bootpd.c	Wed May 22 04:13:57
> > > > 2019	(r348090)
> > > > @@ -587,8 +587,8 @@ PRIVATE void
> > > >  usage()
> > > >  {
> > > >  	fprintf(stderr,
> > > > -			"usage:  bootpd [-a] [-i | -s] [-c
> > > > chdir-path] [-d level] [-h hostname] [-t timeout]\n");
> > > > -	fprintf(stderr, "               [bootptab
> > > > [dumpfile]]\n");
> > > > +		"usage: bootpd [-a] [-i | -s] [-c chdir-path]
> > > > [-d level] [-h hostname]\n"
> > > > +		"              [-t timeout] [bootptab
> > > > [dumpfile]]\n");
> > > >  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -a\tdon't modify ARP table\n");
> > > >  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -c n\tset current directory\n");
> > > >  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -d n\tset debug level\n");
> > > 
> > > These 3 printf's are now miss aligned and contain a \t that
> > > should not be there:
> > > there may be more, I am only look at what is in context here.
> > >  -  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -a\tdon't modify ARP table\n");
> > >  -  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -c n\tset current directory\n");
> > >  -  	fprintf(stderr, "\t -d n\tset debug level\n");
> > >  + 	fprintf(stderr, "       -a\tdon't modify ARP table\n");
> > >  + 	fprintf(stderr, "       -c n\tset current
> > > directory\n");
> > >  + 	fprintf(stderr, "       -d n\tset debug level\n");
> > 
> > They were seemingly misaligned before too.
> > 
> > Before:
> > usage:  bootpd [-i | -s] [-c chdir-path] [-d level] [-h hostname]
> > [-t timeout]
> >                [bootptab [dumpfile]]
> >          -c n   set current directory
> >          -d n   set debug level
> >          -h n   set the hostname to listen on
> >          -i     force inetd mode (run as child of inetd)
> >          -s     force standalone mode (run without inetd)
> >          -t n   set inetd exit timeout to n minutes
> > 
> > After:
> > usage: bootpd [-a] [-i | -s] [-c chdir-path] [-d level] [-h
> > hostname]
> >               [-t timeout] [bootptab [dumpfile]]
> >          -a     don't modify ARP table
> >          -c n   set current directory
> >          -d n   set debug level
> >          -h n   set the hostname to listen on
> >          -i     force inetd mode (run as child of inetd)
> >          -s     force standalone mode (run without inetd)
> >          -t n   set inetd exit timeout to n minutes
> > 
> > To be honest I have no desire to spend more time on bootpd than I
> > already have.  You are welcome to improve the usage formatting if
> > you like.
> 
> omg, really?  Old "folke lore"  You touched, you own it.
> 
> If I didnt have to go through bde and/or phk I would of just gone
> and commited the clean up.  I have handed you the diff.
> 
> Perhaps a phab review before would of made this less painfull.
> And perhaps a phab review once an issue had been raised would
> of been really less painful.
> 

Or perhaps trying to browbeat someone into doing extensive changes when
all they intended to do was a simple obvious thing is asking too much.

You seem to expend quite a bit of energy in making perfect the enemy of
better.  The long term result of that is that either people will just
habitually ignore your feedback, or they'll stop doing simple things to
make the world better because they're tired of being told their work
achieves less than perfection.

-- Ian