Skribent: John Hughes Dato: Til: dng Emne: Re: [DNG] Clear communication (Was: Debian testing drop redis)
On 29/10/17 00:41, Patrick Meade wrote: > On 10/28/2017 02:06 AM, John Hughes wrote:
>> While keeping your eyes peeled is obviously a good thing please
>> remember the downsides of crying wolf when the wolf isn't there.
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> Clear communication is also a good thing. Perhaps the words
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> "[D]rops the Debian-specific support for ... in favour of using systemd"
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> were not the best choice of words to summarize something that was
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> "not a sysvinit-specific change"
Perhaps.
In poor light a dog can look look a wolf. Do you cry "wolf!" or use a
flashlight?
Personally I'm in favour of light. Some others prefer heat.
Anyway, this horse is dead, time to stop beating it.