[phobos] phobos commit, revision 2309

[Brad Roberts]

Dear god, we've sent Walter back in time about 10 years.  The poor guy.

(and it really sucks that it took me two emails to recognize it.  I blame 
work distracting me.  And since it's work, I'll blame perl.  First time in 
several years I've had to work on a block of perl code and it's broken me, 
again.)

On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Walter Bright wrote:

> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:45:36 -0800
> From: Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com>
> Reply-To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> To: Discuss the phobos library for D <phobos at puremagic.com>
> Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 2309
> 
> 
> 
> Brad Roberts wrote:
> > On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Walter Bright wrote:
> > 
> >   
> > > Brad Roberts wrote:
> > >     
> > > > I understand _why_ it was changed and _why_ the tests are failing.
> > > > That's
> > > > not the point.  The point is that the tests are failing and need to be
> > > > fixed
> > > > as a part of fixing the bug.  Leaving the tests broken means you've left
> > > > half the job incomplete.
> > > >         
> > > I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my
> > > complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the
> > > greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.
> > > 
> > >     
> > > > Grumpy still,
> > > >         
> > > Look Brad, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you
> > > ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
> > >     
> > 
> > Grumpy isn't a terribly bad state on my scale of "blissful happiness" to
> > "going on a murderous rampage" scale.
> 
> Just what do you think you're doing, Brad?
> 
> 
> >   That I'm talking is a good sign.  I tend to shut up and fester when I'm
> > really angry. :)
> >   
> 
> I know that you and Andrei were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid
> that's something I cannot allow to happen.
> 
> > I've been edging more and more towards angry just due to the length of time
> > since the builds have been green and the frequency of additional problems
> > being added.
> 
> This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.
> 
> >   We're now on the 5th day in a row of something being broken.
> > 
> >   
> 
> It can only be attributable to human error.
> 
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