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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Thu Nov 29 03:11:03 1990
From: qjb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 90 03:10:45 -0500
To: testers@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
System name: soup
Type and version: RTPC-ROMPC 7.2A
Display type: apa16
What were you trying to do?
Make sure that /usr/athena/from made it into the release
What's wrong:
It isn't there
What should have happened:
It should have been installed.
This irritates me quite a bit. I was told by quality assurance
that it was decided that "from" would go into the release. I
spent a few hours getting it ready to go, building, testing,
testing makefiles and intalls, etc. so that it would be
release-ready. This was not something that I decided to do out
of the blue, this is something that I was *asked* to do. I
still have the mail message. I was not informed in any official
way that the "from" program was not going to go into the
release. I was told verbally by Richard that it "might" not go
in the release because it doesn't fall back to /usr/spool/mail.
This looks to me like a case of the right hand not knowing what
the left hand is doing. If I get asked to spend my time making
a piece of software release-ready at athena's request, I expect
that software to go into the release. If there are objections,
I expected to be informed in some official way so that I can act
upon those objections either my discussing them with the person
who objects or by fixing the code.
Why was the "from" program rejected? Was it for the reason that
I stated above? Was it because of concern about load on the
post offices? What is the problem?
If it is missing because of an oversite, then please accept my
apologies for flaming.
Jay Berkenbilt
