From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91C5F13877A for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B3062E0B0F; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:36:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com (mail-vc0-f173.google.com [209.85.220.173]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DA859E0ADA for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 16:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-vc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hy10so13444104vcb.4 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:36:10 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:content-type; bh=McquflXnN+MRqOtY0XUKVa8U86zvbWVjOqj1e1YhI9g=; b=OFORt5MFnMwbq73STc1Rs8Gi4q3DHSk/oax7/yhkvKFdIltavh8H3Tdqw8hjh9wiZN CL6aI1TE0QVembg4jDxNL0s1DBqTde+7bvsdFW17K3VnJ6QeWci7VZMi4iOI7hXI28s1 owfbDykFxTN6cA5zPnI9b/Q33RyrsZb251SdMEhpvX9qyBZcmkb1pnWU3ZeKwCge2o4H 3kYV2vRdRWbnfL2x+7SRA5PSdm7UzRPahDtR1MLG1XAwn2GWywOvCg5Dj5W0yjfA6vp4 GYGsPii716Emcw8ZJ2NHlft93QiGNIILr5KoyJZ+KFXVmSG/RkfUAIIprX75SeQ+X5Fv MyiA== Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.127.5 with SMTP id nc5mr1831328vdb.59.1407861370754; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:36:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: freemanrich@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.8.229 with HTTP; Tue, 12 Aug 2014 09:36:10 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <53EA1F0A.8010907@gentoo.org> References: <20140810152211.2cc5ae94@sf> <20140812014820.GA3086@linux1> <53E97502.40604@gentoo.org> <20140812024257.GA3262@linux1> <53EA0CC6.6050000@gentoo.org> <53EA1C86.6070800@gentoo.org> <53EA1F0A.8010907@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 12:36:10 -0400 X-Google-Sender-Auth: Qtym_B9P6xcx987x36Of_1ROIIk Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] repoman --nonag (was Re: gentoo-x86 tree cleanup for 'DESCRIPTION ends with a '.' character' warnings ) From: Rich Freeman To: gentoo-dev Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: 0cf3fc73-c7eb-48de-b20e-78315e9507a3 X-Archives-Hash: 638269f478611baef6a84e7c3148c85a On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote: > > 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. > What, specifically, are we considering trivial? The whole point of repoman is to prevent devs from making mistakes. Being able to turn off warnings is counterproductive. Eliminating warnings that don't need to be warnings is of course fine. There is no value in having an escalating battle between warnings and options to suppress them. Rich