From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-portage-dev+bounces-3397-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CC4B138247 for <garchives@archives.gentoo.org>; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:42:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 879CCE0BC6; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:42:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from michel.telenet-ops.be (michel.telenet-ops.be [195.130.137.88]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9871E0BBD for <gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 18:42:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from TOMWIJ-GENTOO ([94.226.55.127]) by michel.telenet-ops.be with bizsmtp id GiiR1n0122khLEN06iiRsY; Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:42:25 +0100 Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 19:41:21 +0100 From: Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> To: wking@tremily.us Cc: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Signing off patches Message-ID: <20140121194121.3e361db3@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> In-Reply-To: <20140121172004.GH29063@odin.tremily.us> References: <20140118164311.GN2647@odin.tremily.us> <20140118235738.2bf5feab@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140118232458.GF29063@odin.tremily.us> <20140119023306.2cdff2af@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140119041557.GI29063@odin.tremily.us> <20140120030914.2f2f7666@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140120023235.GA29063@odin.tremily.us> <20140121164019.12244611@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140121165114.GG29063@odin.tremily.us> <20140121175954.63e4a7c7@TOMWIJ-GENTOO> <20140121172004.GH29063@odin.tremily.us> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0 (GTK+ 2.24.22; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-portage-dev+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-portage-dev.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/A0eSKK6kuJCZ/f=Bd8Bua+v"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: e22e5644-1b03-4ff0-8aba-c8bb8ec94467 X-Archives-Hash: 56b7ed869a1d8f9a87d554d0b317a804 --Sig_/A0eSKK6kuJCZ/f=Bd8Bua+v Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:20:04 -0800 "W. Trevor King" <wking@tremily.us> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:59:54PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 08:51:14 -0800 W. Trevor King wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 04:40:19PM +0100, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > > On Sun, 19 Jan 2014 18:32:35 -0800 W. Trevor King wrote: > > > > > No policy/suggestion/goal is going to be followed 100% of the > > > > > time. > > > >=20 > > > > This way, it seems preferable to use the mailing list when > > > > blaming. > > >=20 > > > Unless some of the discussion happened on IRC. There are several > > > possible channels for patch discussion, but only one commit > > > message per patch. > >=20 > > Exactly, without knowledge codification all that will continue to be > > a "feel like", "probably not", "shouldn't", "unless some". >=20 > I don't see that as a problem. I guess I just have more faith that > current devs will put in a reasonable best-effort without codification > beyond =E2=80=9Chere are some conventions you may want to use=E2=80=9D, a= nd that > future devs will be competent enough to still be productive in the > face of unhelpful commit messages. If they are just mentioned at random all the time, perhaps half of them get remembered or so; the half of what is remembered gets given through to the next generation of future devs, this up to the point that it would have been a better idea to write this down than to have faith. It is a competence that's far from becoming a core competence that way. --=20 With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : TomWij@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D --Sig_/A0eSKK6kuJCZ/f=Bd8Bua+v Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJS3r9RAAoJEJWyH81tNOV9MacH/jzIaNEWfW1jgvjd4wHOf0yV cWT3JpJF+dWziTbU1C8VuwdB7EZuNdgFIGOB1gk5duNUs6cAQ9iSMIYXbJmjVYL4 C9JsTJckxFxXQg6d9xDggVTZnxiX5B2ugcSnSbDN/r6UzXjmFjIy2PHCzJ1K/5uB 0gFPPvIpLAP/uoo70XctGjABV54uOFj1YsGaw/oNQ93HaFX/1yuC/BW70+Togo5S s6H5n07ciIkgVvkID69r3ZhELNEBW9Zp/2C/3xi1112YK/HYBEg9Gps/0PS93Aem Hx8jXOgzBUAn8VMgRUFm+0PqCldpXbF96nukHv4/q5DLkzpNh4yHFsdaYwCfU/U= =71MK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/A0eSKK6kuJCZ/f=Bd8Bua+v--