* Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] QA Team's role
@ 2006-03-01 12:09 99% ` Paul de Vrieze
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From: Paul de Vrieze @ 2006-03-01 12:09 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Tuesday 28 February 2006 21:20, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 20:09:02 +0100 Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | 28.2.2006, 18:38:10, 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
> |
> | No, I won't claim that... I'd rather love to know why didn't you
> | point out to an obvious eclass flaw about 30 emails and many hours
> | ago, saving us from all the eclass formating, slotting and ewarn
> | blurb.
>
> Why didn't you look before accusing me of not having valid issues? I
> mean, it's pretty frickin' hard to miss that one.
This code (or an equivalent kludge/hack) does however allow features that are
of great value to our users. While I agree that such hacks should be avoided
if possible, I think in this case it is not. As such the appropriate response
is to isolate the hack in a central place, where it is clear to be seen and
can easilly be fixed. This allows the quality of the hack to be ensured,
relieving many webapps from doing hacks themselves.
While this hack is being used, some effort should be put into constructively
creating a proper solution for the problems that were hacked around. Saying
"this is not allowed because of X policy" is not helpful as the costs of
disallowing it greatly outweigh the costs of overlooking it in a controlled
manner.
Paul
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