On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 07:29:45 +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 04, 2011 at 10:29:33PM -0400, Sahil Tandon wrote:
> > Is there an example of when either of these ports was bumped
> > inappropriately?  We should not be bumping PORTREVISION without good
> > reason across *all* ports, so I want to understand why these two
> > particular ports that you maintain are being singled out with explicit
> > comments.
> 
> I believe that Doug is trying to address very common problem these days when
> careless committers bump port revisions without giving sufficient thinking
> of whether it is really required.  While you are absolutely right in that we
> should not be bumping PORTREVISION without good reason across *all* ports,
> in reality, not every one is willing to invest some of their time to think
> about if PORTREVISION bump is due every time they commit to a port.

Ah, ok.

> Also, many low quality PRs are being automatically committed with only
> minimal sanity check like tinderbox run.  PORTREVISION is harmless and
> cheap, so why bother?  :-(

I would say it's harmful! :)

-- 
Sahil Tandon <[email protected]>
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