On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Ondrej Certik <ond...@certik.cz> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 1:36 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 27 Okt., 09:56, Jeroen Demeyer <jdeme...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
>>> On 2010-10-27 09:36, Robert Bradshaw wrote:> The larger problem with the 
>>> current system is not that it's hard to
>>> > comment on a single line, but it's way to much work to *fix* a single
>>> > line.
>>>
>>> I would say it's mainly way too much work to get a single line *reviewed*.
>>
>> Well, that depends on the impact of such a change.
>>
>> Small ones can have large effects as you certainly know...
>
> Yes, but manytimes it's just some simple thing.
>
> Speaking for myself, given that I constantly loose my sage trac
> account, I usually don't even try to send a simple patch fixing just
> one line, only when there is some bigger chunk. This applies for all
> projects... Except that recently, I started to send simple patches to
> lots of projects that are hosted at github, because it's super simple
> to send a one line change, super simple to review it and push it in.
> See my other email in this thread about it. You can see my activity
> here:
>
> http://github.com/certik
>
> So my own conclusion is that all things can still be properly
> reviewed, and yet make it very easy for everyone, even for one line
> changes.

This is exactly what I was talking about. Getting code into Sage
should only be epsilon harder than writing the (quality) code (and
doctests). Right now it's often several times as hard.

- Robert

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