*On Oct 13, 2016 6:51 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev at mobileink.com> wrote: > > On Oct 13, 2016 5:39 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" <dev at mobileink.com> wrote: > > > > there are at least two problems: > > > > 1) I sometimes get messages addressed to me only, in response to something I've posted to the list. I'm guessing this happens when people hit "reply" instead of reply all. I'm not an email wizard, but I believe it is possible to make such responses go to the list by default. > > > > 2) many messages to the list are effectively unreadable in the archives. (I'm looking at you, Samsung.) we cannot force people to configure their email clients, but I'll bet we could reject messages that do not play nice with others, which would be a strong incentive. > > > fwiw: > https://lwn.net/Articles/702177/ > > i would not say gerrit should be abandoned, only that email comms should be improved. > > g
another fwiw: some reasons I stopped submitting gerrit patches: 1) any curmudgeon can block progress, for any reason, no matter how ridiculous. just take a look at https://gerrit.iotivity.org/gerrit/#/c/8461/. a complete waste of time. 2) then there's the patch I submitted months ago to elim warnings about c comments embedded in c++ comments, or maybe the other way around, I forget which. I cannot find it in gerrit. in any case this was a useful and trivial patch but it still took weeks, maybe months, I lost track. unbelievable, really. 3) those of you getting paid good money by Big Corporations may be surprised to learn that the rest of us do not have time to waste on silly sh*t like spaces v. tabs, or whether or not a header should be *.h or *.hpp or whatever, or where the squiggly brackets go. you can waste all the time you want on that kind of crap; the rest of us do not have the luxury. to you "the formatting isn't right" is fine, you're getting paid to worry about that, but I'm not. I just want stuff that works and I don't give a damn about formalities. Anybody worried about that kind of crap is free to spend *their* time, after the fact, and not mine, making pretty. and for the record I think it is fair to point out that the iotivity source code is not exactly a paragon of coding virtue. </rant>. Sorry, I guess I'm in a bad mood ;). gregg -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.iotivity.org/pipermail/iotivity-dev/attachments/20161013/6b3150ff/attachment.html>
