On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 15:20:23 -0500
Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> So jer format is something like "%s - foo".
Yes. I now have a format named after me.
> I guess I subconsciously reverted to using a colon because that's what
> makes the most sense to me. But there is a little ambiguity with slots
> in the package atom.
That should be fine. To me it's all about increased legibility through
the use of _whitespace_, not the actual delimiter. Put there whatever
you want.
> Maybe we should ask the bug wranglers team to come up with some
> guidelines and stick them on the project page? Then we can do whatever
> they prefer.
What I haven't seen at all in the past six years is people doing what
b-w prefers. Which is why I'm currently "on leave" with regard to the
daily 5 hour job of bug wrangling. I simply burned out some two weeks
ago and I'm gradually picking up much more interesting tasks rather
than going back to the grind.
One of the major problems is that there is no format we agree on, which
gives plenty of bad examples in the tracker that are validated over and
over for users (broadly speaking, bugzilla users) picking their own
format based on whatever they can come up with. Every attempt to push a
standard has beached on bikeshedding about the format so far.
jer
