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Quotes of the week
The changelog forgot to tell us the user-visible effects of the
bug. That was really really bad of it. Bad changelog. No bone
for you.
-- Andrew Morton
Lawyers: they tend to seem like reasonable and smart people when
taken individually. And yet they try to argue whether you remember
the specific date of a newsgroup posting you wrote. Never mind that
the posting has the date clearly stated on it, and is a reply to
(and is itself replied to) by other newsgroup postings that also
have that date.
-- Linus
Torvalds(Log in to post comments)
Quotes of the week Posted Jul 14, 2011 18:54 UTC (Thu) by Julie (guest, #66693) [Link] The changelog forgot to tell us the user-visible effects of the bug. That was really really bad of it. Bad changelog. No bone for you. I read a lot of akpm's contributions to lkml - so much instruction, interest and entertainment can be gleaned from his comments, and not always just that of a technical nature.To me this quote is a great example of one of the skills that make him such an exemplary maintainer and mailing list tenant - an artless talent for dispensing criticism moderated with an engaging blend of personal humility and mild humour makes his point whilst invariably robbing his words of any possible offence.
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