On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:08 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote:
> hasufell wrote:
>> > A version bump plus cleaning up older ebuilds will be considered
>> > one logical change, I suppose?
>>
>> I'd consider it two logical changes
> ..
>> But I don't have a strong opinion on that
>
> I do - I think this is really important. Having clean history makes a
> huge difference for anyone who wants to use that history.
>
> One argument against those clean professional development practices
> that comes up over and over is that it takes more time, ("mimimi I
> don't have time to be part of any solution") which is sometimes true
> - but since git makes committing so easy usually the difference
> isn't very big, and the payoff when you benefit in the future is
> quite significant.++ A git commit is virtually instantaneous since it is entirely local. > > >> Do you think this should be added explicitly? > > I think keeping rules vague is probably the only thing that somehow > scales. > ++ I think we should start out with decent guidelines, and then move on from there. Nobody is going to die if some of our commits are sloppy out of the gate. One of our biggest strengths as a distro is the autonomy we give individual developers, and guidelines are usually more productive than rules. If they get abused, we can deal with it. -- Rich
