As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote...
> >     How Mr. ignoromous Nate could construe this to mean that I was trying
> >     to brush something under the rug is beyond me.  As I said to Julian,
> >     I probably shouldn't have made the committ, but the fact is that I
> >     not only left the module on my hotlist, I also immediately brought
> >     the potential problem to the attention of the entire list and thence,
> 
> I think this whole tangled thread can probably be summed up thusly:
> 
> There will always be those remarking from the sidelines about any
> change which goes into the FreeBSD source tree, and I do mean ANY
> change, the amount of commentary usually in inverse proportion to the
> importance of the change.  This is just a given.  It's also a given
> that some of these people will have far less clue than others and even
> those who have a clue will often express their comments in such a way
> as to come across as criticising or carping, even though they may not
> have meant to.  There are a lot of engineers here and human
> interaction is rarely their strong suit.
> 
> In any case, rather than getting into a protracted furball with each
> and every commentator and perhaps using inappropriate language in a
> public mailing list in the process, you've gotta do what pro golfers
> and ballplayers do - learn to ignore the crowd when it hasn't got

Ah, you mean like John McEnroe ? ;-)

Wilko
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