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Date:      Sun, 29 May 2016 17:44:07 +0200
From:      Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kurt Jaeger <pi@FreeBSD.org>, Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>, ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r416053 - head/Mk/Uses
Message-ID:  <20160529154407.GA1036@fc.opsec.eu>
In-Reply-To: <20160529152949.GA88078@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201605281719.u4SHJiAa008852@repo.freebsd.org> <6084DC9FC0E493931C0C3D6B@atuin.in.mat.cc> <20160528200254.GI1036@fc.opsec.eu> <20160529152949.GA88078@FreeBSD.org>

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Hi!

> > Done. I'm not sure *why* the kde folks requested this change
> > in the first place, so I'll ask them.
> 
> In this case I'm even more puzzled: why commit a change that you don't fully
> understand?

The KDE folks asked for committer support to get a bunch of changes
in the tree, because there's a backlog. So I worked on those PRs,
and I looked at that change, and it did look innocent and valid, without
investigating all it's implications.

> You should've asked them before committing, not after.

It probably comes down to weight the balance between perfection
and timeliness. A change never done is a change that was never wrong.

> Writing proper commit messages also helps: lack of "why" clause (or inability
> to come up with one) indicates that change is probably not committable yet.

I agree, that's what I try to get across to the kde folks. Still
not perfect, I know 8-}

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