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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 23:17:08 -0700 Donnie Berkholz |
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<dberkholz@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:00:26 -0500 Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o> |
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| > wrote: |
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| > | I think this is a fun way to build some team spirit. |
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| > I think it's a fun way to ruin QA by encouraging people to commit |
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| > broken stuff. |
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| How exactly does it do that? |
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It's offering incentives to get as many commits as possible. The |
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easiest way to get as many commits as possible is to go on a mass |
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keywording or stabling spree. It'd be very easy for someone to do a |
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Manson -- do you really think no-one would? Even if no-one does take it |
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to that extreme, it's offering a reward for people who commit two things |
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rather than doing QA and committing on one thing. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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as-needed is broken : http://ciaranm.org/show_post.pl?post_id=13 |
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