Hi, On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16:29AM +0200, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 10:08:23AM +0300, Sergiu Ivanov wrote:
> > Anyway, I hope the solution I suggested above (adding the > > documentation to my hurd-web page) should be good. > > There's no need to (more or less) hide the information on your user > page. Let me remind you that it was you who turned the individual GSoC project pages into user pages... :-) > > It has just occurred to me that a fair part of my thinking about > > this problem is occupied by taking care of the history being nice. > > I wonder whether it's normal :-( > > In my opinion (and Olaf will probably disagree), you should really > reduce thinking about this too much. Rather get some work done. > Having a polished history of flawless changesets is indeed nice (and > appealing), but it is absolutely not essential for progress. We > should rather be concentrating on moving *forward* than trying to > preconceive what our successors might perhaps be thinking about the > way we have done our changes. As I already said in another mail, the main reason why I ask for "perfect" patches is for practice... Not every patch needs to be perfect; but creating good patches is an important skill in general. (Bisectability is a pretty important requirement for any coding project, and good patch practices mostly boil down to bisectability...) However, as I also already said, this vehemently does *not* apply to the wiki -- that's not the right place for promoting good commit practices :-) > > Seeing how advertently you propagate Mercurial in every applicable > > task > > Yes, a tiny plea: please don't do that all the time on bug-hurd, > rather take these off-topic emails off-list. A bit of off-topicness > is always needed and tolerable, but you have to know when to stop. > Else, we might think about setting up a hurd-chatter mailing list? I must admit that totally off-topic discussions do not bother me too much: on a mailing list (unlike on IRC), it's really easy to completely ignore such a thread. On some lists I do that all the time. What bothers me more are discussions that are more or less on topic, and yet totally unproductive -- like the circular discussion about opaque memory etc. that took place here some months ago. Unlike with totally off-topic one, there is actually a reason for the developers to continue participating it such discussions; and thus they drain much more time and energy than totally off-topic stuff... But if you think we should introduce a stricter off-topic policy for this list, I wouldn't really object either :-) -antrik-
