+1000

Thanks for bringing this up, I fully agree that we need to do something about 
it.

Some time ago I even had an idea of creating a case when we intentionally 
exclude a person from a team for constantly doing things like this and ignoring 
our comments. Although I understand it slightly conflicts with our openness 
principle.. It’s just really tempting quite often.

Renat Akhmerov
@Nokia

On 22 Sep 2017, 09:26 +0700, Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh...@gmail.com>, wrote:
> Let's not forget the epic fail earlier on the "contribution.rst fix" that 
> almost melt down the community CI system.
>
> For any companies that are doing what Matt mentioned, please be aware that 
> the dev community of the country you belong to is getting hurt by your stupid 
> activity.
>
> Stop patch trolling and doing something meaningful.
>
> > On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Matt Riedemann <mriede...@gmail.com> 
> > wrote:
> > > I just wanted to highlight to people that there seems to be a series of 
> > > garbage patches in various projects [1] which are basically doing things 
> > > like fixing a single typo in a code comment, or very narrowly changing 
> > > http to https in links within docs.
> > >
> > > Also +1ing ones own changes.
> > >
> > > I've been trying to snuff these out in nova, but I see it's basically a 
> > > pattern widespread across several projects.
> > >
> > > This is the boilerplate comment I give with my -1, feel free to employ it 
> > > yourself.
> > >
> > > "Sorry but this isn't really a useful change. Fixing typos in code 
> > > comments when the context is still clear doesn't really help us, and 
> > > mostly seems like looking for padding stats on stackalytics. It's also a 
> > > drain on our CI environment.
> > >
> > > If you fixed all of the typos in a single module, or in user-facing 
> > > documentation, or error messages, or something in the logs, or something 
> > > that actually doesn't make sense in code comments, then maybe, but this 
> > > isn't one of those things."
> > >
> > > I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but this is annoying to the point I 
> > > felt the need to say something publicly.
> > >
> > > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/author:%255E.*inspur.*
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Matt
> > >
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