April Fools fun with committers
I’m only a week late in blogging about this, but I pulled a joke on my beloved committers last week when I sent out an oh-so-formal-looking email stating that I was:
- drastically reducing disk quotas (in light of p2’s greatness)
- moving the server infra from Linux to Windows (hahaha)
- erasing all CVS projects at the end of the week, forcing all to migrate to SVN
A few ‘fell’ for the joke, although it’s understandable — I don’t have a habit of joking on that list — but at the end of the day it got a bunch of committers talking to each other, and a few thanked me for making them laugh. It’s all in good fun.
Now excuse me as I must go press ENTER on that rm -rf /cvsroot/* command.
Posted April 8th, 2008 by Denis Roy in category: Uncategorized
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Ed Merks Says:
April 8th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
I got some private notes expressing concern with regard to the terrible things I said about Denis being a truly horrible person and about the foundation being rotten to the core. That was such a hoot. We really need more humor in our lives. Thanks for adding to the levity of April Fools!
Mike Kucera Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 12:03 am
Too bad the joke only lasted two minutes. I was totally prepared for a steady stream of freak-out emails, but then someone gave away the joke after the first reply. I guess some people forget the point of April fools is to fool people, and preferably as many people as possible.
Denis Roy Says:
April 9th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Ed, really? Geez… People oughta know you by now.