Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-11 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Andrew Suffield wrote: > >* New upstream release (closes: #270944, #277543). It's less than two > > weeks since this was released; may you contract an interesting > > venereal disease. > > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-11 Thread Steve Greenland
On 10-Jan-05, 13:55 (CST), Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland dijo [Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:44:24PM -0600]: > > Not really called for, but I understand the frustration with people who > > have nothing better to do than nag, and (for the second bug) without > > even checking t

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Miles Bader
Gunnar Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well... DJB was not trying to be specially nice Is DJB _capable_ of being nice?!? -Miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Steve Greenland dijo [Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:44:24PM -0600]: > > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were > > perfectly polite. > > Not really called for, but I understand the frustration with people who > have nothing better to do than nag, and (for the second bug)

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steve Langasek: [DJB's vulnerability research course] > Considering the assignment AIUI was "find security holes", I think the assignment was "find potential security holes and prove that they are security holes, by writing exploits". The first part is easy, just compile any sufficiently obsc

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-10 Thread Florian Weimer
* Joey Hess: > Andrew Suffield wrote: >>* New upstream release (closes: #270944, #277543). It's less than two >> weeks since this was released; may you contract an interesting >> venereal disease. > > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were > perfectly

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 06:44:24PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote: > > Imagining myself as a student in this class: I complete the requested > > assignment, with luck make an A, only to have the prof post it to the > > internet and then be insulted by perfect strangers as they use my work > > to fix

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Steve Greenland
On 08-Jan-05, 15:08 (CST), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were > perfectly polite. Not really called for, but I understand the frustration with people who have nothing better to do than nag, and (for the second bug) withou

Re: rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
Em SÃb, 2005-01-08 Ãs 16:08 -0500, Joey Hess escreveu: > [...] > Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were > perfectly polite. I completely agree on this. Rudeness, be it gratuitous or in response to someone else's rudeness is surely not something we want recorded in

rudeness in changelogs

2005-01-08 Thread Joey Hess
Andrew Suffield wrote: >* New upstream release (closes: #270944, #277543). It's less than two > weeks since this was released; may you contract an interesting > venereal disease. Is this really called for in changelogs? Note that the bug reports were perfectly polite. Here's another