[openstack-dev] [All] IRC Mishaps

Jay Pipes jaypipes at gmail.com
Wed Feb 8 23:04:26 UTC 2017


On 02/08/2017 03:36 PM, Kendall Nelson wrote:
> Hello All!
>
> So I am sure we've all seen it: people writing terminal commands into
> our project channels, misusing '/' commands, etc. But have any of you
> actually done it?
>
> If any of you cores, ptls or other upstanding members of our wonderful
> community have had one of these embarrassing experiences please reply! I
> am writing an article for the SuperUser trying to make us all seem a
> little more human to people new to the community and new to using IRC.
> It can be scary asking questions to such a large group of smart people
> and its even more off putting when we make mistakes in front of them.
>
> So please share your stories!

Hi!

I can't tell you the number of times I've typed or pasted one of these:

:wq

or

1407gg

or

ggVG

or

:find nova/compute/resource_tracker.py

or

Vgq

or

tox -py27 -- --failing

Such is the life of a keyboard-driven contributor I guess! :)

-jay



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