Dear Collaborator,
I will like to follow up on the essential part of Christians message,
regarding
the responsibilities of anayone who modifies and checks in to follow the
guidelines
that have been written up both in terms of rules, as well as a craeful
complete checkout before stuff is
put back into cvs. There is a lot of people out there using the software,
who depends on having a good
version of brat in CVS.
If you are in doubt precesily what to do, please ask before checkins
either another collaborator at your institution or the list server.
Thanks
Flemming
>
> I should like to point out, though, that this is not a retraction of
> the previous mail as such. The severity of the problem communicated
> (albeit in a bad from) in that mail, is real. Papers has previously
> been delayed weeks for exactly these reasons. And guess who has to
> take out a week of his normal work to make fixes - yep, you guessed it
> - me.
>
> I cannot, and will not, spend my entire time fixing other peoples
> problems as well as my own. Therefor, my outlook has always been that
> we have to be able to trust people to do things properly - the
> collabortation is simply too small for us to have dedicated software
> people (if you thought I was the one, think again.). When that trust
> is frustrated time after time, the fuse becomes extremely short.
>
> Therefor, I beg of you all: Familiarise yourself with the procedures
> and protocol as outlined in "The Hitchhikers Guide to BRAT". I wrote
> that document, not for my sake, but to help you out and so that once
> and for all, things were said. I know most computer users never read
> manuals, but do remember: BRAT and ROOT is your main toolkits - you
> should know them well, just like a carpenter should know his hammer
> well. Dismissing this as unintresting or irrelevant is in my opinion
> unprofessional.
>
> Humbly Yours,
>
> Christian Holm Christensen -------------------------------------------
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