Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman --nonag (was Re: gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings )

[Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>]

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On 12/08/14 03:01 PM, Michał Górny wrote:
> Dnia 2014-08-12, o godz. 10:04:58 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@gentoo.org>
> napisał(a):
>> On 12/08/14 09:54 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
>>> 
>>> Perhaps we need to have a less-important repoman warning level
>>>  (something that can be quieted with a flag) for things like
>>> this? In terms of DESCRIPTION consistency I don't see it being
>>> a bad thing that we have the warning, but i also don't see a
>>> point in changing the entire tree to get rid of 3000 bytes,
>>> esp. since the ChangeLog entries added to the tree will add at
>>> least 30,000 bytes :)
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm wondering what everyone thinks of having a --nonag option to 
>> repoman and shoving some of the more trivial/style-related
>> repoman 'warnings' into a 'nag' level warning?  IIRC at least one
>> of the QA team members is so tired of the warnings that they want
>> to make every single one of them errors; the --nonag option would
>> allow those warnings to remain in repoman (ie to help guide new
>> dev's or non-dev's using repoman on their local repos) but since
>> they don't relate to actual technical breakage they can just be
>> turned off during QA runs, etc.
> 
> Just don't. I think you missed the point hard and I don't want to
> know where the ricochet ended.

The ricochet more or less ended with the notion that repoman shouldn't
be a random style guide, or rather, development time is better spent
elsewhere rather than making it into one -- and so there's no use case
for "nag" level messages and a flag that would disable them.


> Thirdly, I'm pretty sure I had a third argument but I forgot what
> it was. But it was totally convincing, I'm sure of it.

Yep, that one was definitely the clincher.  you've convinced me! :)

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