RFC: fix summary text for lots of packages

Josh Boyer jwboyer at gmail.com
Thu Nov 20 18:18:16 UTC 2008


On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:50AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>Josh Boyer (jwboyer at gmail.com) said: 
>> >I'm not sure this scales across 5000 packages. So it would be good
>> >to have at least *something* in the guidelines.
>> 
>> You're assuming that all 5000 packages need fixing.  I doubt that's
>> the case.
>
>No, but it's not something you can easily automate (unlike
>FTBFS, or broken deps.)
>
>> Also, the bugs need to be filed either way.  So the scaling argument
>> still applies and adding a guideline for this is really just unneeded
>> work...
>
>If you get it fixed in the guidelines and at the review point, you
>eliminate having to scan & file all those bugs later - always fix
>issues as early as possible.

The guidelines already say 'brief'.  Quantifying what that means is all
that a new guideline would be doing.

And you're also assuming that packages strictly adhere to the guidelines
after they are reviewed, but that is a whole different can of worms.

josh




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