[LinuxBIOS] "Trivial" patches

[Carl-Daniel Hailfinger]

On 21.11.2007 00:30, Torsten Duwe wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007, Uwe Hermann wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2007 at 07:40:26PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
>>     
>>> OK, can we decide on what should be (not) allowed, preferably as regexp
>>> for the diff?
>>>       
>>
>>> Checking for added files in the commit hook is easy. [...]
>>>       
>
>> Overkill, IMO. Just flame whoever did crap, in the worst case we revert
>> the patch.
>>     
>
> Seconded. A "trivial" patch must _never_ break anything. Leave that basically 
> to each committer's judgement. If it does break something, flame at will; we 
> all make mistakes, but the blame must hurt ;-) In the long run, someone 
> incapable of forseeing such breakage should not retain commit rights, IMHO.
>   

Removing commit rights of a person is surely a drastic measure, and the
only one that works in case we don't enforce sane behaviour in the
commit hooks. If I had my commit rights revoked, I'd probably feel
offended very much.

> Besides that, do we agree that at least adding a new function or macro is 
> non-trivial (by definition, if you like)? This would also cover refactoring 
> and the design of new subsystems and would allow to split out a new file from 
> an existing big one OTOH.
>   

By that logic, adding a new file is non-trivial as well. Nice. The
conditions above surely can be checked in a commit hook.


Regards,
Carl-Daniel