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From: Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 20:35:20
Message-Id: 200603022127.50395.pauldv@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA Roles v2 by Mark Loeser
1 On Thursday 02 March 2006 19:28, Mark Loeser wrote:
2 > Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o> said:
3 > > It's a heck of a lot easier to do if you assume that developers will
4 > > use sane syntax. Where developers don't use sane syntax, the only way
5 > > to deal with it is to check it by hand. We don't have enough developers
6 > > to do that.
7 >
8 > I don't see where anyone is saying that we shouldn't fix things to
9 > adhere to coding standards. We are just saying it is not a, "OMG you
10 > broke it!" problem. It is about appropriate responses to the problems
11 > we encounter.
12
13 That is my point exactly. I do encourage QA though to make available a list of
14 those syntax issues that break their tools. Take it for a positive spin,
15 developers will then be prepared to accomodate QA. We all want quality.
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17 Paul
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20 Paul de Vrieze
21 Gentoo Developer
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