On 11/10/25 00:58, Christian Brauner wrote:
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> This reads like a factual statement about "impressiveness" of the tools.
> Just drop that sentence, please. It doesn't add value to the commit
> message at all.\
Sure thing. Dropped.
...>>> These tools are constantly becoming more capable and
>>> +undoubtedly improve developer productivity. At the same time, reviewer
>
> "undoubtedly improve developer productivity"?
> Am I reading an advert or kernel documentation about the policy how to
> use new tooling?
>
> Please keep it factual without statements about what perceived value
> this adds. People use it and we have to have a policy for it. There's no
> need to celebrate it.
I can definitely steer this away from perceived value. But the main
point of this section was to do some impedance matching between
maintainers and contributors. You (the contributor) may be more
productive, but the maintainer just got more patches to review.
So we could easily tone this down by changing:
These tools are constantly becoming more capable and
undoubtedly improve developer productivity.
to
These tools can increase the volume of contributions.
But I do think it's important to make the connection between
reviewer/maintainer scarcity and tooling.
