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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 GLEP 31 is withdrawn until Gentoo gets some means of removing commit |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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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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