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On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 10:43 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> I'd like to discuss a proposal aiming to improve the general quality of |
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> ebuilds in the Gentoo repository. |
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Is something actually broken? |
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IMO discretion and ability to comply with policies/etc are probably |
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far more important than rattling off EAPI/eclass/GLEP trivia. They're |
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just hard to measure for new recruits so we use the quizzes as a proxy |
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for estimating whether somebody will be able to fit in. If somebody |
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could pass the quizzes in the past, and have a fairly clean record |
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inside Gentoo, then I don't really see the point in having them |
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continue to jump through hoops. |
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If they're making mistakes in their commits then just focus on the |
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mistakes they're making and boot devs who don't raise their general |
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level of quality. You don't need to guess whether an existing dev |
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will mess up the repo - they already have commit access. If they |
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haven't been breaking things left and right so far, it is unlikely |
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that they will start to do so in the future. |
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Now, docs for developers about EAPI changes have been written in the |
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past and are undoubtedly useful. I just don't see the need to give |
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them a certification quiz of some sort. |
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Rich |
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