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Hi all,

Following the code reviews lately I've noticed that we (the fan club seems to be growing on weekly basis) have been growing culture of nitpicking [1] and bikeshedding [2][3] over almost every single change.

Seriously my dear friends, following things are not worth of "-1" vote if even a comment:

1)      Minor spelling errors on commit messages (as long as the message comes through and flags are not misspelled).

2)      Minor spelling errors on comments (docstrings and documentation is there and there, but comments, come-on).

3)      Used syntax that is functional, readable and does not break consistency but does not please your poem bowel.

4)      Other things you "just did not realize to check if they were there". After you have gone through the whole change go and look your comments again and think twice if your concern/question/whatsoever was addressed somewhere else than where your first intuition would have dropped it.

We have relatively high volume for glance at the moment and this nitpicking and bikeshedding does not help anyone. At best it just tightens nerves and breaks our group. Obviously if there is "you had ONE job" kind of situations or there is relatively high amount of errors combined with something serious it's reasonable to ask fix the typos on the way as well. The reason being need to increase your statistics, personal perfectionist nature or actually I do not care what; just stop or go and do it somewhere else.

Love and pink ponies,

-          Erno

[1] www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitpicking<http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nitpicking>
[2] http://bikeshed.com
[3] http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bikeshedding

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