Re: somebody needs to run staging before 29 Jan

[Janek Warchoł]

2012/1/30 Graham Percival <address@hidden>:
> I think there's confusion between Patchy staging-merge and Patchy
> test-patches.

I don't feel confused at all, don't worry about it.

>> i decided to pause my other Lily work and focus on improving
>> Patchy and our development workflow.  I took the approach of solving
>> problem causes instead of symptoms: it takes more time, but its better
>> in the long run.
>
> Yes, and that's valuable for the future.

Had you added a "thank you", you'd have made me happy.
(just stating a fact)

>> I've spent about 30 hours on Patchy in the previous
>> week despite exam season.  Now i feel like a noob because i haven't
>> finished a simple python script till Jan 29, and my 30 hours of work
>> seem to be worthless.  Great.
>
> I think you were working on the wrong problem -- a problem which
> *will* be important in the future.  I haven't yet set a date for
> when I refuse to run test-patches yet, but I'm thinking about Feb
> 14.

since 90% of the code is shared, it doesn't make much sense to me to
work on one part of Patchy at a time.

> The time to panic about not knowing how to do those tasks is NOW,

I assure that i'm panicking the most i can.

AAAAA!,
Janek