On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 18:40 -0600, Lance Albertson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 00:29 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005 17:58:58 -0600 Lance Albertson > > wrote: > > | How about both options? Some people prefer getting email reports, > > | others prefer just going to a website. I don't see how this could be a > > | problem, so why not offer both? :) Perhaps we should ask the author to > > | rewrite his proposed GLEP to be more of a QA monitoring system that > > | devs could use. > > > > Mmm, I think it'd help more if the author was actually aware of how > > development works. > > In a perfect world, thats the case. Last time I checked, we don't live > in a perfect world. Are you talking general development practices, or > Gentoo specific practices? If its the latter, do we have a doc that > covers some QA/practices related topics that maybe aren't covered in the > dev handbook? > > Its going to be hard to get around this problem with people, so why not > create something that might make them aware of their problems and offer > ways to help them get better instead of complaining about them? > Also the other issue is for instance that say some eclass gets depreciated, or some new function is used to add stuff to say /etc/env.d (doenvd, check if ebuild does 'insinto /etc/env.d'), and the dev missed that - this could be nice things to add to this checker, as it will ensure we do not sit with 20 ways of doing the same thing, but not exactly wrong. -- Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa