On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 01:34:55PM +0200, wm4 wrote: > On Mon, 17 Oct 2016 13:09:36 +0200 > Michael Niedermayer <mich...@niedermayer.cc> wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 10:07:42AM +0200, Nicolas George wrote: > > > Le sextidi 26 vendémiaire, an CCXXV, Michael Niedermayer a écrit : > > > > probably, yes > > > > > > I would have said exactly the opposite. It is nothing but a waste of time > > > and a pollution of the history. > > > > My idea here is to maximize the number of developers > > And if in cases where one doesnt really care much either way and > > someone else seems caring more one says, "ok" that may result in a happy > > new contributor. > > Saying "no" is more likely to turn someone away. > > and again, it doesnt really matter if the , is there after a > > final sentinel /count entry as no next field would ever be added > > Are you kidding me. Patches should be judged on their technical merrit, > not whether you might piss someone off by rejecting it.
this is about a cosmetic change having no real technical effect
>
> Rather, you'd keep someone on one's toes by giving him hope that his
> patch might be accepted - and making him waste some more time on it.
> Just with the result that other devs might reject the patch anyway,
> which would make for a frustrating experience.
>
> > And ATM the "," thing is not consistent either way
> > git grep '_NB$' |wc
> > 53 114 2123
> > git grep '_NB,$' |wc
> > 30 76 1499
> >
> > Making this more consistent shouldnt be a bad thing if the people who
> > want it also do the work ... (and it doesnt end as some rule that
> > causes future work to people not caring ...)
> >
> > [...]
>
> That's true, but your grep has a huge number of false positives.
it was just a quick, dirty and crude statistic,
slightly better is:
git grep '^[ A-Za-z0-9_]*_NB$' | wc
52 104 2018
git grep '^[ A-Za-z0-9_]*_NB,$' | wc
22 44 964
[...]
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