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Ludovic Courtès |
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[bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access. |
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Thu, 02 Jan 2020 12:53:56 +0100 |
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Hello!
zimoun <address@hidden> skribis:
> On Wed, 1 Jan 2020 at 17:36, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> +Committers are expected to have had some interactions with you as a
>> +contributor and to be able to judge whether you are sufficiently
>> +familiar with the project's practices. It is @emph{not} a judgment on
>> +the quality of your work, so a refusal should rather be interpreted as
>> +``let's try again later''.
>
> Cutting the hairs: on one hand "be able to judge" on practices and on
> the other hand "not a judgment on the quality".
> Even if I understand the idea behind (I guess), I do not find it well
> worded, if I might.
> I mean, I bet that "the quality of work" is a strong part when
> motivating the acceptance or the refusal, so yes it is "a judgment on
> the quality of your work" (but not only).
> Quality implies standards and practices; quality can be measured (more
> or less). From my understanding.
>
> Instead of 'quality', I propose 'value' which is more subjective.
I agree that “value” sounds more appropriate here. Fixed!
>> +However, note that the project is working towards a more automated patch
>> +review and merging system, which, as a consequence, may lead us to have
>> +fewer people with commit access to the main repository. Stay tuned!
>> +@end quotation
>
> I find inappropriate the "Stay tuned!" in the manual.
Because it’s too informal, or because it’s confusing? (The former is
fine with me.)
Thanks,
Ludo’.
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 0/4] Move 'HACKING' to the manual, and a proposal for commit access, Ludovic Courtès, 2020/01/01
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Brett Gilio, 2020/01/01
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Ricardo Wurmus, 2020/01/02
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/01/02
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2020/01/06
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2020/01/06
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Brett Gilio, 2020/01/06
- [bug#38846] [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., zimoun, 2020/01/07
- bug#38846: [PATCH 4/4] DRAFT doc: Add a cooption policy for commit access., Ludovic Courtès, 2020/01/09