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Rémi Cardona wrote: |
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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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I agree that new features makes more sense here. USE flag description in |
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metadata.xml is just an example of new feature, IMO. |
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My 2 HK$, ;) |
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