On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:19:49AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote: > Hello list! > > OK, this seems to have been quite an unfortunate start for me: > > as CVS allows people to work independently and in the scope they > prefer I saw no reason not to commit my first changes in small > blocks to make sure I solely change what I intented to change, i.e. > I fixed a spelling error in the english page and bumped the > translation-check header in all applicable translations using the fine > smart_change.pl, then committed this small block. > I knew about the debian-www-cvs mailing list but thought this is > acceptable, after all the system is set up for many changes.
Good job, thanks. > Apparently it was not acceptable, and at least one person was / is > seriously annoyed by the amount of similar messages coming in, so I > propose the attached change to devel/website/using_cvs.wml. > > Unfortunately things have already happened and as the very same person > has used the term "abuse" please check whether I have violated the > DMUP [...] This is how people work together in Debian: they believe that they have to refer to documents instead of giving some rationale. So yes, changing all files with a single commit (or few ones) is much better, but this is not a big deal. Your patch is not very clear, at first reading I thought that you were telling to combine spelling mistakes with content changes, which is of course wrong. Denis
