On Wednesday 18 April 2007 1:01:46 pm Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> > For me real
> > communication looks like this:
> >
> > 1) Developer X sends a patch and explains what it is doing
> > 2) Developer Y finds a problem and possibly presents a solution
> > 3) Developer X confirms that the solution still fixes the original
> > problem, or presents one himself, or has still some questions.
> >
> > 2) and 3) could be repeated a few times, but in the end both X and Y
> > understand the whole problem, and not only parts of it.
> >
> > I believe that this is the case now for the delimiters case, but what
> > happens currently very often is "first commit, then think". This is what
> > I call playing bug ping pong (you fix one bug by introducing another),
> > especially since the commit messages are often too short and do not
> > explain the changes, so it is very difficult for others to follow.
>
> I totally agree with you here.
>
> --
> Enrico

+1

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José Abílio

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