On 12 April 2012 08:48, Brice Figureau <brice-pup...@daysofwonder.com> wrote:
> Nowadays, I don't even read patches because they're either one click > away or difficult to read in the e-mail. Worst: most of the time I open > the "close" pull request e-mail by mistake (thinking it is the open one) > and struggle to find the real "open" one to read the patch. (I believe > we don't need this "close" e-mail, it just adds unnecessary noise). > One reason the patches are difficult to read is that all sub-patches are > merged in one big chunk, so you're losing the author intent. > Maybe nobody feels like me or that's because there are much more patches > than there was before, but the dev list was a good way to stay tuned on > what happens in the Puppet code. I just feel it isn't now anymore. While I still read most of the patches I have to agree with what Brice has eloquently said throughout his mail. I think it has become harder to casually keep up as an interested observer and requires a bigger time investment than it used to, and that's not just because of the increased development output. Dean -- Dean Wilson http://www.unixdaemon.net Profanity is the one language all programmers understand --- Anon -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-dev@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev?hl=en.
