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Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 11:35:12 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | * Just because breaking policy breaks a QA tool, but is guaranteed to |
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> | never break itself (formatting policy, like space vs. tab etc.) |
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> | does not increase the severity of the breakage. |
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> I'd argue against this one. See, it's possible to deliberately |
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> circumvent some of repoman's checks by doing weird whitespace and syntax |
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> trickery. There's also no way to fix repoman short of writing a fully |
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> functional bash parsing tool -- which is complicated enough that even |
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> bash doesn't have one that works in some releases... |
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QA shouldn't have to depend on the tools you use. The final say should |
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be the human interaction. If doing weird white spaces breaks the tool, |
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but really isn't a QA issue outside of neatness, it shouldn't be waving |
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red flags. Yes, its probably something that should be fixed, but it |
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shouldn't be a critical one just because the tool is broken and can't |
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handle the weirdness. |
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