On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Derk-Jan Hartman
<[email protected]> wrote:
> "If people don't want to put their code through review this is scary to me"
>
> They do get their code reviewed. The rules are however usually simple 'it 
> needs to work'. Not everyone has time to spend a gazillion hours on getting 
> familiar with git, gerrit, jshint, git-review, resourceloader, i18n, l10n, 
> the actual review lag, the deploy lag and I don't know what else.
>
> Some ppl just want to edit categories super fast NOW. That's how these tools 
> start and then these people are usually done. A bit of required maintenance, 
> but that's it, they are editing/reviewing/categorizing again. Look at 
> navpopups. With minor changes, that thing has been able to run basically 
> unsupervised since 2006 and it is one of the most popular tools.

This seems like a bad habit to have got ourselves into...
All it takes is a trailing comma somewhere and a gadget could take out
a whole browser.
Likewise a bad usage of a css transition can completely kill site
performance and make everything laggy.
I'm not disagreeing that this workflow gets results - it obviously
does - but I think we should be striving to identify good Gadgets and
giving them love and attention for the good of everyone.

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