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On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:26:09AM +0800, Zhipeng Huang wrote:
> Let's not forget the epic fail earlier on the "contribution.rst fix" that
> almost melt down the community CI system.
> 
> For any companies that are doing what Matt mentioned, please be aware that
> the dev community of the country you belong to is getting hurt by your
> stupid activity.
> 
> Stop patch trolling and doing something meaningful.
> 
Sorry, but I found this comment over the line. Just because you disagree with
the $topic at hand, doesn't mean you should default to calling it 'stupid'. Give
somebody the benefit of not knowing any better.

This is not a good example of encouraging anybody to contribute to the project.

-Paul

> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 10:21 AM, Matt Riedemann <mriedemos at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > I just wanted to highlight to people that there seems to be a series of
> > garbage patches in various projects [1] which are basically doing things
> > like fixing a single typo in a code comment, or very narrowly changing http
> > to https in links within docs.
> >
> > Also +1ing ones own changes.
> >
> > I've been trying to snuff these out in nova, but I see it's basically a
> > pattern widespread across several projects.
> >
> > This is the boilerplate comment I give with my -1, feel free to employ it
> > yourself.
> >
> > "Sorry but this isn't really a useful change. Fixing typos in code
> > comments when the context is still clear doesn't really help us, and mostly
> > seems like looking for padding stats on stackalytics. It's also a drain on
> > our CI environment.
> >
> > If you fixed all of the typos in a single module, or in user-facing
> > documentation, or error messages, or something in the logs, or something
> > that actually doesn't make sense in code comments, then maybe, but this
> > isn't one of those things."
> >
> > I'm not trying to be a jerk here, but this is annoying to the point I felt
> > the need to say something publicly.
> >
> > [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/q/author:%255E.*inspur.*
> >
> > --
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Matt
> >
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