Hi all,

Following the code reviews lately I've noticed that we (the fan club seems to 
be growing on weekly basis) have been growing culture of nitpicking [1] and 
bikeshedding [2][3] over almost every single change.

Seriously my dear friends, following things are not worth of "-1" vote if even 
a comment:

1)      Minor spelling errors on commit messages (as long as the message comes 
through and flags are not misspelled).

2)      Minor spelling errors on comments (docstrings and documentation is 
there and there, but comments, come-on).

3)      Used syntax that is functional, readable and does not break consistency 
but does not please your poem bowel.

4)      Other things you "just did not realize to check if they were there". 
After you have gone through the whole change go and look your comments again 
and think twice if your concern/question/whatsoever was addressed somewhere 
else than where your first intuition would have dropped it.

We have relatively high volume for glance at the moment and this nitpicking and 
bikeshedding does not help anyone. At best it just tightens nerves and breaks 
our group. Obviously if there is "you had ONE job" kind of situations or there 
is relatively high amount of errors combined with something serious it's 
reasonable to ask fix the typos on the way as well. The reason being need to 
increase your statistics, personal perfectionist nature or actually I do not 
care what; just stop or go and do it somewhere else.

Love and pink ponies,

-          Erno

[1] 
www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitpicking<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitpicking>
[2] http://bikeshed.com
[3] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

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