From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Nov 25 11:31:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE2F337B401; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:31:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2A4343EBE; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 11:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E006B3F4B; Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:31:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Dan Langille" To: Anders Nordby Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 14:31:12 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: FreshPorts sanity testing - should errors be sent to committers? Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <3DE23430.29532.D39A72FA@localhost> In-reply-to: <20021125192433.GB55119@totem.fix.no> References: <3DE22FC8.10368.D3893A69@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.02a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 25 Nov 2002 at 20:24, Anders Nordby wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 02:12:24PM -0500, Dan Langille wrote: > >>> I wish to raise the issue of making this feature non-opt-in. > >> > >> Not only no, but hell no. > > A feature is available which improves quality, catches simple syntax > > errors immediately, and has zero affect on those who do their work > > error-free.. Why do you object to that? > > Ports committers and other committers should be free to choose their > error checking methods on their own. At least make it opt-out. They are free to do so. But when they check in something and it contains an error, what is wrong with telling them about it? Clearly it was missed during their work. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message