From: Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009)
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:20:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49A56FDB.1080105@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090225160212.GA3509@dodo.hsd1.nj.comcast.net>
Thomas Anderson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 04:56:04PM +0100, Luca Barbato wrote:
>>> Yes, it will warn noisily. This is unacceptable, since stable users
>>> will have months and months of noise when new rules come along.
>> "unacceptable"...
>>
>> as in "it's ugly to see"...
>>
>
> No, it's unacceptable because stable users do not need that kind of
> stuff thrown at them. Stable users use stable because they want a very
> predictable workflow. Noisy errors that shouldn't affect them(they are
> in the stable branch) *is* unacceptable, and not just because it's ugly,
> though that's certainly part of it.
You have quite a good point here. It's purely cosmetical, but since it's
an unexpected behavior and it's annoying and could alienate our users
it's better to avoid it with all our strength.
lu
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Luca Barbato
Gentoo Council Member
Gentoo/linux Gentoo/PPC
http://dev.gentoo.org/~lu_zero
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2009-02-23 2:15 ` [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 (Was: [gentoo-council] Re: Preliminary Meeting-Topics for 12 February 2009) Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 8:38 ` [gentoo-dev] " Tiziano Müller
2009-02-23 8:52 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 13:45 ` Duncan
2009-02-23 9:25 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-23 10:02 ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-23 10:28 ` Douglas Anderson
2009-02-23 12:26 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 13:50 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:15 ` Brian Harring
2009-02-23 14:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:28 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-23 14:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 15:43 ` Steve Dibb
2009-02-23 15:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:13 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-23 16:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:48 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-23 17:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:30 ` Petteri Räty
2009-02-23 19:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:02 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-23 19:07 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 16:06 ` Peter Alfredsen
2009-02-23 16:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 19:22 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 20:51 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 20:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 22:15 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 22:16 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-23 22:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 13:55 ` Ferris McCormick
2009-02-24 14:14 ` Serkan Kaba
2009-02-28 13:04 ` Peter Volkov
2009-02-28 13:21 ` Matthias Schwarzott
2009-02-23 23:47 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-23 23:49 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 0:17 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 0:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 1:49 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 14:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:24 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:36 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:43 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Robert Bridge
2009-02-24 16:15 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:21 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:33 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:42 ` Alec Warner
2009-02-24 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 18:56 ` Ryan Hill
2009-02-24 22:58 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 16:21 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:45 ` Joe Peterson
2009-02-24 16:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:17 ` Roy Bamford
2009-02-24 21:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:24 ` Robert Bridge
2009-02-24 22:11 ` Roy Bamford
2009-02-24 22:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 1:01 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-23 13:21 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 13:40 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-02-23 13:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-23 14:46 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-23 14:59 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 7:08 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 8:06 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 9:09 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 10:50 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 12:15 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 15:46 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 15:56 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:29 ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-02-24 16:46 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 17:25 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 18:20 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 19:08 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 19:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:07 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:37 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 20:56 ` Jim Ramsay
2009-02-24 20:17 ` Richard Freeman
2009-02-24 20:25 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 21:46 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 21:48 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 22:48 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 22:58 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 6:34 ` Tiziano Müller
2009-02-25 15:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 9:29 ` George Shapovalov
2009-02-24 10:11 ` Alistair Bush
2009-02-24 14:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 16:04 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 16:14 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 17:16 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-24 18:24 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-24 19:28 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-24 19:37 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 8:33 ` Alexis Ballier
2009-02-25 15:30 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 16:17 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:22 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 3:04 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 15:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 15:56 ` Luca Barbato
2009-02-25 16:02 ` Thomas Anderson
2009-02-25 16:20 ` Luca Barbato [this message]
2009-02-25 16:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2009-02-25 2:34 ` [gentoo-dev] Issues regarding glep-55 Petteri Räty
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