Re: Review process

[Alex Kost]

Mathieu Lirzin (2016-07-23 12:51 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Pjotr Prins (2016-07-23 05:24 +0300) wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks Ludo. As it stands I am no longer submitting packages to ML. I
>>> did my utmost to make the package lean and clean. This package is not
>>> going in.
>>>
>>> But, I suggest you listen. I know at least 4 people here who say they
>>> have trouble submitting to Guix. Good people.
>>
>> 5 including me :-) I always feel big inconveniences sending patches, and
>> I don't like that the development happens on mailing list.  However
>> unlike Pjotr and Jookia I think it's my problem, not the one of the Guix
>> community.
>>
>> I just wrote this because I'm almost sure that some day I will maintain
>> emacs interface separately from Guix again.  I've been regretting all
>> the time that it became a part of Guix.
>
> I am interested to know what do you miss from that the period you were
> maintaining it separately?

Oh, this is easy: if I maintain something myself, I don't ask anyone, I
just commit whatever seems appropriate to me, and that's it.  When I
send patches for emacs UI to the mailing list, it's like I ask
permissions to modify a part of code I wrote.

Also I always have a bad feeling that I load Ludovic (who is the only
person reviewing these patches) with a useless additional work.

Finally, I feel like I clog the mailing list with my patches.  Sometimes
I want to make some small change, but then I think: «Ah, it's not so
big, no one will ever notice it anyway, so I wouldn't bother people with
it.»  (although recently myglc2 noticed several such things :-))

-- 
Alex