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On Tuesday 16 August 2005 09:52 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 10:46:23 +0900 Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> |
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> | On Wednesday 17 August 2005 08:38, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> | > GLEP 31 is withdrawn until Gentoo gets some means of removing commit |
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> | > access from people who say "nyah nyah I don't feel like following |
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> | > the rules and so I'll just carry on breaking stuff as I see fit". |
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> | > As it stands I've been told by various people that they have no |
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> | > interest in ensuring that their commits are UTF-8 safe (even if |
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> | > there's an automated check that warns them when they're about to |
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> | > break something), and I don't consider it fair to force lots of |
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> | > repoman warnings upon other developers who *do* care about that |
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> | > kind of thing who just happen to be the next person to touch a |
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> | > package that got broken. |
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> | Repoman could check the commit message for being valid UTF-8 and |
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> | simply not allow the commit if it isn't. :) |
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> Well, I have a tool already that checks that. But it doesn't help when |
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> we have developers who don't use repoman, who forcibly override repoman |
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> fatal errors and who just randomly remove anything they think is |
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> causing errors... |
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yes, but lets work with what we have ... besides, it'll be easy to pick out |
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who used repoman and who didnt by checking who has broken UTF8 commit |
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messages ;) |
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-mike |
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