[Mageia-sysadm] Initscripts - Migrating to git and regenerating mdkconf.patch and further Mageia tweaks.

Sat Oct 22 18:19:45 CEST 2011

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 21/10/11 14:18 did gyre and gimble:
+> On 21 October 2011 14:24, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
+>>> Don't you think attaching a file rather than pasting 1000+ lines of log
+>>> woud be more friendly to other people?
+>>
+>> It's only 700 lines not 1000+,
+> 
+> I don't know how you count but I count 1023 lines between first
+> "git remote add mga" until last "initscripts-9.31-1 -> initscripts-9.31-1"
+> (for a grand total of 1122 lines)
+
+That's mail client wrapping/unwrapping. It's 700 lines of content
+overall, but granted it ended up being more in the mail unless the mail
+client didn't reformat it.
+
+> Well there is: I'd to scroll down your 1000+ lines just to see if
+> there was anything
+> else after the logs...
+> If it would have been a log file, I wound't have to.
+
+True but then I want people to look at the output and give their
+opinions as to if there was something wrong/dangerous/problematic in
+what I did. If they are not interested in the topic they won't read the
+mail at all, so either they are participating half-heartedly and not
+reading the log, or they are helping. Either way it's the same task
+needed so the medium is pretty much irrelevant.
+
+>> Also if you want to refer/quote to specific parts of the push (as I did
+>> in my other reply) then including inline is better and more considerate.
+>> This is pretty much common practice for patch reviews etc (to allow
+>> inline quoting).
+> 
+> We don't speak about patch review but about repeteaed contents over
+> 1000+ lines.
+> 
+> This is off topic BS.
+> Of those 1000+ lines, 814 were the same sendmail message again & again!
+> What's the point of repeating it over 800+ lines?
+
+Granted I could have trimmed that, sorry.
+
+> If someone was interesting in "reviewing" them, having 5 lines
+> would have been enough.
+
+Not really. The whole point in the mail was that I was identifying
+branches that had been deleted due to the push I did. 5 lines would not
+be sufficient for that.
+
+>> So it really depends on different peoples' definition of $CONSIDERATE.
+> 
+> Come on...
+
+I'm quite serious. It's a matter of opinion. I certainly don't
+completely disagree with all your points, but they are still subjective.
+
+But anyway, no real point in discussing further. If something similar
+happens again I'll try and trim the useless sendmail output.
+
+Col
+
+-- 
+
+Colin Guthrie
+colin(at)mageia.org
+http://colin.guthr.ie/
+
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