From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5523 invoked by alias); 21 Jul 2004 19:54:23 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 5267 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2004 19:54:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 21 Jul 2004 19:54:22 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6LJsMe1020765 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:22 -0400 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6LJsLa07815; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:21 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.9]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i6LJsKXP011317; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:20 -0400 Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (toenail.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.211]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1313C80028A; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from toenail.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.5) with ESMTP id i6LJsJeP016449; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:19 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by toenail.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id i6LJsJ6J016445; Wed, 21 Jul 2004 15:54:19 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: toenail.toronto.redhat.com: fche set sender to fche@redhat.com using -f To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/copyright] lib/java.exp: update copyright years References: <20040719213256.177364B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <9003-Wed21Jul2004061952+0300-eliz@gnu.org> <20040721115337.GG10977@redhat.com> <2914-Wed21Jul2004212050+0300-eliz@gnu.org> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 19:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <2914-Wed21Jul2004212050+0300-eliz@gnu.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.4 (Reasonable Discussion) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00285.txt.bz2 eliz wrote: > > But why do experienced technical people believe that adding or > > modifying comments like this, or reindenting a piece of a file, > > should reasonably require all this mass of communication and > > formality and process? > > Because people involved want to understand the issues, and I > personally find that a very reasonable attitude. > [...] Well, the way things are going, those "involved" people will "understand the issues" (whatever that means) over and over and over and over and over and over and over with the formal process busywork. - FChE