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Alec Warner wrote: |
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> On 11/27/07, Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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>> How the recent changes happened to allow USE flag descriptions in |
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>> metadata.xml (which I'm not taking any position on now) gave me an idea. |
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>> The Linux kernel requires that any needed documentation accompany all |
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>> changes requiring said documentation -- part of the source-code patch |
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>> must apply to the Documentation/ directory. Should we require that |
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>> before you commit any changes, you (or someone) write the documentation |
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>> for them and commit it or submit a patch at the same time? |
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>> To sum up: No undocumented changes. |
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> No, because this is not a realistic requirement, it's an ideal case. |
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> People will just commit changes without documentation anyway. |
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What if Donnie had used s/changes/new features/ ? Then his proposal |
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makes much more sense. |
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For bugfix, we already have ChangeLogs. |
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My 2 euro ¢ |
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Cheers, |
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Rémi |
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