Re: [Mesa3d-dev] Commit messages broken??

[Dan N. <dbn...@gm...>]

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:10 AM, Daniel Stone <da...@fo...> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:02:46AM -0500, Zack Rusin wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 March 2010 02:58:49 Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>> > ]] Zack Rusin
>> > | BTW, replacing a mail client on the server with something that's not
>> > | compatible is not very social.
>> >
>> > Rather than assuming malice, you may assume that I was trying to fix
>> > something when I made that change.
>>
>> I was assuming that whoever did it was trying to do something, but the
>> reasoning behind the change doesn't change the result at all - we were not
>> informed of it and the commit messages broke. So as far as we are concerned
>> there really wouldn't be any difference between someone just deleting
>> /usr/bin/mail and you trying to fix something by replacing mail with something
>> else. The bottom line is that there's quite a few projects hosted on fdo, with
>> a lot of people depending on that setup and making changes to it without
>> communicating it very clearly it is bound to break something.
>> I don't want to make into a big deal, because it wasn't but a short email or
>> even an blog just saying "new /usr/bin/mail is coming in, make sure it doesn't
>> break your project" would avoid the whole problem.
>
> Shit happens.  Ease up.

Not to fan the flames anymore, but there is the fd.o administration
blog that's syndicated on planet. That would be a nice place to dump
information like this, and IIRC Benjamin used to do that. However, it
seems that www.freedesktop.org/adminblog/ doesn't have the necessary
permissions to view the entries.

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Dan