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A day in the life of the CentOS team

A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 29, 2006 14:42 UTC (Wed) by maderik (subscriber, #28840)
In reply to: A day in the life of the CentOS team by clump
Parent article: A day in the life of the CentOS team

While perhaps phrased a bit poorly, I think the sentiment the author was trying to express was "It's unfortunate that your city's website is offline..."


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A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 30, 2006 14:59 UTC (Thu) by ekj (subscriber, #1524) [Link]

That's an over-diplomatic interpretation.

Most people would interpret it more along the lines of: "I feel sorry for your city, seeing that it has people like you working for it."

A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 30, 2006 17:42 UTC (Thu) by maderik (subscriber, #28840) [Link]

But it's the first sentence of the first e-mail response. At that time the extent of the problem between keyboard and chair was not fully known. It's only after reading everything else that the second meaning overtakes the first.

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