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On 24 May 2013 11:34, Peter Rabbitson <rabbit-p5p@rabbit.us> wrote: > On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 11:32:35PM -0400, David Golden wrote: >> >> Karl -- you were responsible for most of the recent commits to >> pod/perlebcidic.pod. Did you fix the many lines over 80? No, you >> didn't. >> >> I really respect your many contributions to the core, but please walk >> the walk before you talk the talk. > > IMHO he actually does. Basically these skips mean "Ah shit... this is > hard to fix... and we got to ship... I will leave it for later. The test > will catch the other 95% of the violations which are not hard to fix, so > at least when I get a roundtuit I will not have as much to fix to get > things back to snuff". > > Whereas the s/80/100/ patch says: "Ah sod it - it doesn't matter. If > someone wants to have this - they can fix it all in one step at some > future point. But for the time being I refuse to crowdsource work which > I find useless anyway". IMO its not crowdsourcing, it is misusing the most scarce resource we have (competent C programmers who know the core) for something that others can do just as well. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next