On 03/21/2018 03:33 AM, Kent Fredric wrote: > On Wed, 21 Mar 2018 01:44:11 +0000 > Herb Miller Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If I am, then yes, some kind of automation >> would be the only sane way to keep up > In my experience you can't *really* rely on automation 100% for this > sort of thing. Not while achieving quality results. > > Its viable for an overlay where there's no expectations of quality, but > for the main tree, I find you want to have a human san-check everything > and manually vet each upstream version for "anomalous things". > > Automation is good at handling the "known predictable" cases, humans > are better at detecting "huh, that's weird, why did they do that?" > > Because you absolutely want to know if upstream added some stupid > change that is harmful to Gentoo users before you blindly replicate it.
And I agree with you 100%. I would never rely on automation exclusively. I would use it to write boilerplate sections, check for updates, check for breakage, etc. I'd never open a PR for something I hadn't polished myself.
