On 05/08/2013 04:56 PM, Benjamin Thaut wrote: > So what I'm trying to say is, that maybe a pull request should first be > analyzed > if it is actually worth putting more work into it before starting with the > nitpicks. I don't know if the review process is already defined somewhere, if > not it might be worth doing so.
I had a similar experience of code-style corrections arriving before deeper review. My impression was that this was because once you've taught the style to a contributor once, you don't have to teach them again -- suffice to say that it made later work easier because I knew what to do in order to avoid ever getting those kind of nitpicks. In other words we could concentrate _just_ on the problem and not on the style. I'm sorry you had a bad experience, though, and I can see exactly why it would be offputting.