Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Signing off patches

[Tom Wijsman]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:20:04 -0800
"W. Trevor King" <wking@×××××××.us> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:59:54PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:51:14 -0800 W. Trevor King wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:40:19PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:32:35 -0800 W. Trevor King wrote:
> > > > > No policy/suggestion/goal is going to be followed 100% of the
> > > > > time.
> > > >
> > > > This way, it seems preferable to use the mailing list when
> > > > blaming.
> > >
> > > Unless some of the discussion happened on IRC.  There are several
> > > possible channels for patch discussion, but only one commit
> > > message per patch.
> >
> > Exactly, without knowledge codification all that will continue to be
> > a "feel like", "probably not", "shouldn't", "unless some".
>
> I don't see that as a problem.  I guess I just have more faith that
> current devs will put in a reasonable best-effort without codification
> beyond “here are some conventions you may want to use”, and that
> future devs will be competent enough to still be productive in the
> face of unhelpful commit messages.

If they are just mentioned at random all the time, perhaps half of them
get remembered or so; the half of what is remembered gets given through
to the next generation of future devs, this up to the point that it
would have been a better idea to write this down than to have faith.

It is a competence that's far from becoming a core competence that way.

-- 
With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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