From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1FEQYX-0003vd-N4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:35:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k21CY0Fl030186; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:34:00 GMT Received: from psmtp01.wxs.nl (psmtp01-real.wxs.nl [195.121.247.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k21CUdZD027092 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:30:39 GMT Received: from pavlvs2.devrieze.net (ip5457f303.direct-adsl.nl [84.87.243.3]) by psmtp01.wxs.nl (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k21CUdkh015763 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:30:39 +0100 Received: from hex.local.devrieze.net (hex.local.devrieze.net [192.168.1.7]) by pavlvs2.devrieze.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91D41004E for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:30:39 +0100 (CET) From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 13:30:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <200602281617.20416.pauldv@gentoo.org> <20060228153126.44c0a0e1@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <20060228153126.44c0a0e1@snowdrop.home> X-Face: #Lb+'V@sGJ;ptgo5}V"W+5OCoo{LZv;bh,s,`WKLi/J)ed1_$0;6X<=?utf-8?q?700LVV/=3BLqPhiDP=5E=0A=09=27f=5Dfnv?=@%6M8\'HR1t=aFx;ePfp{ZQoBe+e)JOQ8T5*(_;mHY+cltLGq<;@$Y,=?utf-8?q?O=5C=24=0A=09Tm=23G6M?=,g![Q62J{na*S9d;R[^8pc%u\aiLqU@`kJtYl"^6pxdW Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart5126047.h9eLlfVD07"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200603011330.41390.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: d1a0d7c7-51c7-46d4-92e1-ec9593ab6488 X-Archives-Hash: 6ac3f93d49fe2b696d62cd370b14104e --nextPart5126047.h9eLlfVD07 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 28 February 2006 16:31, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:17:20 +0100 Paul de Vrieze > > wrote: > | On Tuesday 28 February 2006 15:52, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > | > Yes, it's an utterly trivial problem, but it is a QA violation. > | > Getting a complete list is something that takes a heck of a lot > | > longer, and I have yet to be convinced that my time would not be > | > better spent elsewhere. > | > | Where is a coding style problem related to quality of code in general > | and assurance in particular? > > It's more relevant than you might think. Screwing up layout like that > breaks various QA checking tools that assume that things are in the > standard format. Then fix the damn tools. I've had runins with broken tools earlier. If you= =20 want the ebuild format to be stricter, well, make portage complain.=20 Otherwise, fix up your parser. > Proper coding style is part of being proper. Coding style issues exist in degrees. White space issues such as these are = of=20 very low priority. Broken QA tools should not be an excuse to give them=20 higher priority. Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --nextPart5126047.h9eLlfVD07 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEBZPxbKx5DBjWFdsRAjAFAKDTyCV+HRU1ToVIOGSTmbnwUg8pGACfRddP bZmazH80yB+5WEt2ZEpuUJ8= =SpGp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart5126047.h9eLlfVD07-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list