On 2/2/07, James Carlson <james.d.carlson at sun.com> wrote:
> William James writes:
> > On 2/2/07, Danek Duvall <danek.duvall at sun.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 08:19:19PM -0800, Jan Setje-Eilers wrote:
> > >
> > > > To be honest, I'm starting to regret not finding the time to get an
> > > > exception to the single delta rule and getting the history in that
> > > > way.
> > >
> > > FWIW, I think I would have preferred that.
> >
> > Isn't it up to the project team to decide which files and
> > documentation they want to have in the CVS and which not? I think it
> > is little bit silly to rant and complain about each single file which
> > goes into the tree like this.
>
> I don't agree with either point.
>
> It's not strictly up to the project team. The repository itself
> doesn't belong to the project team -- it belongs to the ON community
> -- so project teams wishing to integrate into it need to convince the
> rest of ON (or at least the interested parties) that they're not just
> tossing useless bits into the gate. Everyone pays a penalty for bits
> that are adrift in the gate, and we try hard to avoid them (see, for
> example, the 'findunref' tool). Deliberately introducing things that
> have nothing to do with the actual source build process requires a bit
> of scrutiny.
>
> On the second bit, a review is a review. If it doesn't pick at nits,
> then I'd hazard to guess that it's probably not that thorough a
> review, and what you're characterizing as "ranting" sounds to me like
> the normal course of issues raised in review. I _expect_ to hear
> these things.
>
> If someone doesn't actually want to see his work reviewed, then I
> think it'd probably be better to find a gate that doesn't care about
> peer reviews. Of the ones to choose, ON is historically probably
> among the most picky.
Does this necessarily include rigidity? I mean Roland has given a fair
rationale why this kind of file should be in the CVS and then even
offered a compromise which includes a removal of the file if it is no
longer required. I find it a bit unfair that this is being ignored.
Cheers,
William
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