[openstack-dev] [tc][all] A culture change (nitpicking)

Artom Lifshitz alifshit at redhat.com
Tue May 29 19:06:48 UTC 2018


> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:52:04AM -0400, Mohammed Naser wrote:
>
> :On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:43 AM, Artom Lifshitz <alifshit at redhat.com> wrote:
> :>  One idea would be that, once the meat of the patch
> :> has passed multiple rounds of reviews and looks good, and what remains
> :> is only nits, the reviewer themselves take on the responsibility of
> :> pushing a new patch that fixes the nits that they found.
>
> Doesn't the above suggestion sufficiently address the concern below?
>
> :I'd just like to point out that what you perceive as a 'finished
> :product that looks unprofessional' might be already hard enough for a
> :contributor to achieve.  We have a lot of new contributors coming from
> :all over the world and it is very discouraging for them to have their
> :technical knowledge and work be categorized as 'unprofessional'
> :because of the language barrier.
> :
> :git-nit and a few minutes of your time will go a long way, IMHO.
>
> As very intermittent contributor and native english speaker with
> relatively poor spelling and typing I'd be much happier with a
> reviewer pushing a patch that fixes nits rather than having a ton of
> inline comments that point them out.
>
> maybe we're all saying the same thing here?

Yeah, I feel like we're all essentially in agreement that nits (of the
English mistake of typo type) do need to get fixed, but sometimes
(often?) putting the burden of fixing them on the original patch
contributor is neither fair nor constructive.



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