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From: Gordon Pettey <petteyg359@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/
Date: Sat, 14 May 2016 15:04:20
Message-Id: CAHY5MeeeK5SHAROPfBL-zLUUt-9SDm-ZP7ySWZMydeXd-bvcMA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/ by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 6:35 AM, Ciaran McCreesh <
2 ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > Why? Gentoo is about the community. Requiring a basic standard of commit
5 > quality a) reduces the number of community members who are able to
6 > contribute, 2) leads to fewer forums posts discussing how to fix
7 > problems, iii) hurts Gentoo's DistroWatch statistics by reducing the
8 > volume of commits, and fourthly, discriminates unfairly against
9 > competency-challenged developers by imposing subjective interpretations
10 > of the value of source code from a position of unearned authority. This
11 > is against the code of conduct, and is bad for the community!
12 >
13 > So, it's perfectly okay to make direct commits of obviously broken code
14 that has no chance of working, because community something mumble...

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] repo/gentoo:master commit in: eclass/ "Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn" <chithanh@g.o>