Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Begin a dev-libs/nodejs category?

[Herb Miller Jr. <herb@hlmjr.com>]

On 03/21/2018 03:33 AM, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:44:11 +0000
> Herb Miller Jr. <herb@hlmjr.com> wrote:
>
>> If I am, then yes, some kind of automation
>> would be the only sane way to keep up
> In my experience you can't *really* rely on automation 100% for this
> sort of thing. Not while achieving quality results.
>
> Its viable for an overlay where there's no expectations of quality, but
> for the main tree, I find you want to have a human san-check everything
> and manually vet each upstream version for "anomalous things".
>
> Automation is good at handling the "known predictable" cases, humans
> are better at detecting "huh, that's weird, why did they do that?"
>
> Because you absolutely want to know if upstream added some stupid
> change that is harmful to Gentoo users before you blindly replicate it.

And I agree with you 100%. I would never rely on automation exclusively.
I would use it to write boilerplate sections, check for updates, check
for breakage, etc. I'd never open a PR for something I hadn't polished
myself.