Let’s apply sensible reason. If it’s a new feature or a bug, it should be 
tracked against an artifact like a bug ticket or a blueprint. If it’s truly 
trivia, we don’t care. I can tell you that some of the worst bugs I have ever 
seen in my career had fixes that were about 4 bytes long. That did not make 
them any less serious.

If you are fixing an actual legitimate bug that has a three character fix, and 
you don’t want it to be tracked as the reviewer, then you can say so in the 
commit message. We can act accordingly going forward.

Adrian

On Sep 17, 2015, at 1:53 PM, Assaf Muller 
<amul...@redhat.com<mailto:amul...@redhat.com>> wrote:



On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Jeff Peeler 
<jpee...@redhat.com<mailto:jpee...@redhat.com>> wrote:

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Fox, Kevin M 
<kevin....@pnnl.gov<mailto:kevin....@pnnl.gov>> wrote:
I agree. Lots of projects have this issue. I submitted a bug fix once that 
literally was 3 characters long, and it took:
A short commit message, a long commit message, and a full bug report being 
filed and cross linked. The amount of time writing it up was orders of 
magnitude longer then the actual fix.

Seems a bit much...

Looking at this review, I'd go a step farther and argue that code cleanups like 
this one should be really really easy to get through. No one likes to do them, 
so we should be encouraging folks that actually do it. Not pile up roadblocks.

It is indeed frustrating. I've had a few similar reviews (in other projects - 
hopefully it's okay I comment here) as well. Honestly, I think if a given team 
is willing to draw the line as for what is permissible to commit without bug 
creation, then they should be permitted that freedom.

However, that said, I'm sure somebody is going to point out that come release 
time having the list of bugs fixed in a given release is handy, spelling errors 
included.

We've had the same debate in Neutron and we relaxed the rules. We don't require 
bugs for trivial changes. In fact, my argument has always been: Come release
time, when we say that the Neutron community fixed so and so bugs, we would be 
lying if we were to include fixing spelling issues in comments. That's not a 
bug.


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