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Excerpts from Huang Zhiteng's message of 2017-09-23 10:00:00 +0800:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:34 AM, Zhipeng Huang <zhipengh512 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > Unfortunately I know better on this matter and it is not the matter of topic
> > dispute as many people on this thread who has been disturbed and annoyed by
> > the padding/trolling.
> >
> > So yes I'm sticking with stupid because it hurts the OpenStack community as
> > a whole and hurts the reputation of the dev community from my country which
> > in large are great people with good hearts and skills.
> >
> > I'm not giving even an inch of the benefit of doubt to these padding
> > activities and people behind it.
> Hi Zhipeng,
> 
> Not sure how much you have been involved in the dev community in
> China, but it's now a good time to talk to those companies (in public
> or private) and ask them to stop encourage their developers to submit
> such changes.

I would prefer to set up a system where we can have those sorts of
conversations in private, to encourage people to contribute
constructively instead of shaming them.

Doug

> 
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Sep 23, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Paul Belanger <pabelanger at redhat.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> 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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> >> > Zhipeng (Howard) Huang
> >> >
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> >> > IT Standard & Patent/IT Product Line
> >> > Huawei Technologies Co,. Ltd
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> > --
> > Zhipeng (Howard) Huang
> >
> > Standard Engineer
> > IT Standard & Patent/IT Product Line
> > Huawei Technologies Co,. Ltd
> > Email: huangzhipeng at huawei.com
> > Office: Huawei Industrial Base, Longgang, Shenzhen
> >
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