Re: Issue 1356 in lilypond: LilyPond-style comments embedded inaScheme expression can't include special characters

[Phil Holmes]

"Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:05:35PM -0700, Colin Campbell wrote:
> > On 11-11-28 11:39 AM, Phil Holmes wrote:
> > >This presumes that the Bug squad can and do run Git, which is a
> > >false presumption.
>
> +1
>
> > More specifically, I believe it requires a Linux build environment,
> > to be truly effective.
>
> If you want to test that the patch actually does what it claims to
> do, then yes.  If you just want to check if the patch exists in
> master, then of course it's not necessary.
>
> > OTOH, with the lilybuntu VM and lily-git.tcl, doing
> > "Update source", drop to a shell, cd ~/lilypond-git/build and
> > running make, should be within reach for most of the sort of folk
> > who want to be bug squadders.
>
> I honestly believe that less than 50% of bug squad volunteers are
> actively working after 4 weeks.  Am I incorrect as a matter of
> fact?

I don't know the history.  I believe the current squad, as shown on the CG, 
has 100% active members.

> Assuming that I'm not factually incorrect here, we should not make
> it harder for bug squad volunteers to get started.  Once we hit
> 80% retention of volunteers after 4 weeks, I'm open to increasing
> the difficulty.  I would hope that this goal is easy -- as long as
> we're up front about what's required, maintain an encouraging
> environment where questions are welcome (within the bug squad, and
> I'm not claiming to be interested in taking part in that), and
> ruthlessly update the CG section on Issues -- but it *does*
> require skilled developers mentoring new volunteers.
>
> Short term: sure, let's make "verify a patch" only a task for the
> bug meister.  The bug meister can either check patches in master
> via git, or else just mark any Patch issue as verified without
> checking anything.


Whoa.  I've just trained the new squadders to do this based on what was 
_agreed_ wrt checking the patch was pushed to staging.  With the volume of 
patches we have, this is one of the larger jobs to do, and so it really does 
waste my time.  Unless there is clear agreement to change what we currently 
do (and I only see one person dissenting) then we go with the current status 
quo, as documented in the current CG in GIT.

--
Phil Holmes
Bug Squad