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 1FE9Ko-0002wz-LT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:12:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1SIAoS6019148; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:10:50 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.204]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1SI8ew5004439 for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:08:42 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i22so1157099wra for ; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:09:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JDY109fthbqGd32PJh/VspNeq4gp5P/tIlup8MPok7WdPFzjmWKMVlqmLKJKWKuG7w1Hyg/raR6prZbs4oGVD58gNhJ9F3neE4dEIICbiao3bXPbMtbBU51pZB2lNjhwkoAnGIOpGFaquJIw8UxuyVMWGd5l9vkEaJYCmJu/rwU= Received: by 10.54.100.13 with SMTP id x13mr742597wrb; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:09:15 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.116.13 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:09:31 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <46059ce10602281009r292468d9i32948aba31139932@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 13:09:31 -0500 From: "Dan Meltzer" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role In-Reply-To: <1141149589.10641.12.camel@localhost> 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: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060226222217.GB17257@aerie.halcy0n.com> <7310506941.20060228162637@gentoo.org> <20060228154246.3e34d340@snowdrop.home> <1141143118.2741.18.camel@localhost> <20060228163532.273200be@snowdrop.home> <1232307950.20060228180003@gentoo.org> <20060228170954.37396045@snowdrop.home> <16410671399.20060228183024@gentoo.org> <20060228173810.3e209be2@snowdrop.home> <1141149589.10641.12.camel@localhost> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from base64 to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id k1SI8ew5004439 X-Archives-Salt: 492a15ec-9084-4c39-bb96-0ab85b907083 X-Archives-Hash: 349e162d165c304619ddf4ad19553c27 On 2/28/06, Patrick Lauer wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:38 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > Sheesh, you'll probably claim that this isn't broken next too: > > > > if [ "${IS_UPGRADE}" = "1" ] ; then > > einfo "Removing old version ${REMOVE_PKG}" > > > > emerge -C "${REMOVE_PKG}" > > fi > Ciaran, > (and this is valid for all emails to technical lists,) > please save us some time and many emails by stating what is wrong when > you show a QA violation. > Many among us don't think in assembler and don't know enough about the > code to decide if/why something is wrong. This in turn causes someone > (like me) to send an email asking what is wrong, causing another reply > by you etc. etc. > > It's a bit like me stating: > "The bug is in line 14: > i+=2 > " > If you don't know the code you won't understand why. > > Now if I said "line 14 increments by two, but then you won't ever get > out of the loop since the exit condition won't be met" everyone could > understand it and evaluate my statement. > > If you show a wrong code snippet please explain _why_ it is wrong in the > same email. I believe the bug is calling emerge from within the eclass. > > Thanks, > > Patrick > > -- > Stand still, and let the rest of the universe move > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1-ecc0.1.6 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQBEBI+UqER3hOUoZM4RAjzxAJ9tvaSOY3625NaptPTj/yLxXrIXJACeITwy > 43JQjZpI+HEckc6Mla3f9l0= > =so5q > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list