Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 17:49:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: "J. Mallett" <jmallett@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD current users <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Seeking OK to commit KSE MIII Message-ID: <200205300049.g4U0ne16064403@apollo.backplane.com> References: <XFMail.20020529124710.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0205291057020.12315-100000@InterJet.elischer.org> <20020529124434.A2156@dragon.nuxi.com> <200205292007.g4TK71YD062671@apollo.backplane.com> <20020529152159.A82752@FreeBSD.ORG> <200205292353.g4TNrdH7063967@apollo.backplane.com> <20020529171351.A5586@FreeBSD.ORG>
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When it comes right down to it, I am getting wholely sick and tired
of people acting like rulez-police and complaining about the most
minor, most insignificant syntactical changes imagineable. The
rest of us developers have better things to do with their time then
to spend it on a few undistinguished braces that have no
effect whatsoever on readability or reviewability and, frankly,
are so insignificant that it doesn't even make sense to commit them
separately.
You don't believe me? Read Julian's diff and the commit he just
made and try telling me that it absolutely *HAD* to be a separate
commit because you wouldn't have been able to read the
diff otherwise. It is an absolutely ridiculuous thought.
Now if someone was going through files making dozens of syntactical
changes intermixed with other things then, sure, you could request
that they be put in separately and I would call it a reasonable request.
But that is not what is going on here. Not by a long shot. We have
people on this list that complain over the smallest 'infraction' of the
rules, and then jump up the alleged significance of the event by
foretelling gloom and doom and the end of all things if the rules are
not followed exactly to a T.
It MUST STOP. It is not good for the development community or the
project.
-Matt
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