[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] vala: add vala/valac wrapper

Peter Korsgaard peter at korsgaard.com
Tue Feb 23 15:19:42 UTC 2016


>>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> writes:

 > Hello,
 > On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:42:24 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

 >> This could indeed be a good idea. One reason to limit the number of committers
 >> was to avoid conflicts (i.e. two committers working on the same patch in
 >> parallel), but as I understand it, Thomas and Peter noticed that this isn't
 >> really a problem in practice.
 >> 
 >> So indeed, having a third person that applies trivial patches could be
 >> worthwhile to try.
 >> 
 >> That said, Yann and I are already spending a large part of our buildroot time
 >> on reviewing patches. I don't think that applying them immediately is going to
 >> make that much of a difference.

 > Fully agreed: applying the patch is clearly not what takes time. It's a
 > mechanical and stupid operation.

Agreed. I'm all for ways of improving our ways of working, but I don't
think this will change much. Adding Thomas as a co-maintainer has imho
been very good, but adding a 3rd committer without having more reviewers
imho won't make any significant difference.

-- 
Venlig hilsen,
Peter Korsgaard 



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