Q: How many FreeBSD hackers does it take to change a lightbulb?
   
   A: One thousand, one hundred and seventy-two:
   
   Twenty-three to complain to -current about the lights being out;
   
   Four to claim that it is a configuration problem, and that such
   matters really belong on -questions;
   
   Three to submit PRs about it, one of which is misfiled under doc and
   consists only of "it's dark";
   
   One to commit an untested lightbulb which breaks buildworld, then back
   it out five minutes later;
   
   Eight to flame the PR originators for not including patches in their
   PRs;
   
   Five to complain about buildworld being broken;
   
   Thirty-one to answer that it works for them, and they must have
   cvsupped at a bad time;
   
   One to post a patch for a new lightbulb to -hackers;
   
   One to complain that he had patches for this three years ago, but when
   he sent them to -current they were just ignored, and he has had bad
   experiences with the PR system; besides, the proposed new lightbulb is
   non-reflexive;
   
   Thirty-seven to scream that lightbulbs do not belong in the base
   system, that committers have no right to do things like this without
   consulting the Community, and WHAT IS -CORE DOING ABOUT IT!?
   
   Two hundred to complain about the color of the bicycle shed;
   
   Three to point out that the patch breaks style(9);
   
   Seventeen to complain that the proposed new lightbulb is under GPL;
   
   Five hundred and eighty-six to engage in a flame war about the
   comparative advantages of the GPL, the BSD license, the MIT license,
   the NPL, and the personal hygiene of unnamed FSF founders;
   
   Seven to move various portions of the thread to -chat and -advocacy;
   
   One to commit the suggested lightbulb, even though it shines dimmer
   than the old one;
   
   Two to back it out with a furious flame of a commit message, arguing
   that FreeBSD is better off in the dark than with a dim lightbulb;
   
   Forty-six to argue vociferously about the backing out of the dim
   lightbulb and demanding a statement from -core;
   
   Eleven to request a smaller lightbulb so it will fit their Tamagotchi
   if we ever decide to port FreeBSD to that platform;
   
   Seventy-three to complain about the SNR on -hackers and -chat and
   unsubscribe in protest;
   
   Thirteen to post "unsubscribe", "How do I unsubscribe?", or "Please
   remove me from the list", followed by the usual footer;
   
   One to commit a working lightbulb while everybody is too busy flaming
   everybody else to notice;
   
   Thirty-one to point out that the new lightbulb would shine 0.364%
   brighter if compiled with TenDRA (although it will have to be reshaped
   into a cube), and that FreeBSD should therefore switch to TenDRA
   instead of EGCS;
   
   One to complain that the new lightbulb lacks fairings;
   
   Nine (including the PR originators) to ask "what is MFC?";
   
   Fifty-seven to complain about the lights being out two weeks after the
   bulb has been changed.
   
   Nik Clayton adds:
   
   I was laughing quite hard at this.
   
   And then I thought, "Hang on, shouldn't there be '1 to document it.'
   in that list somewhere?"
   
   And then I was enlightened :-)