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Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua)
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Nathaniel Smith |
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Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua) |
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Wed, 5 Sep 2007 07:22:30 -0700 |
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 09:45:46AM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 04:10:55AM -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> >
> > So my suggestion:
> > -- just put things that are intended for programs in automate
> > -- but only after you've made the effort to make them good.
> > "Effort" includes doing the things you have control over (like
> > thinking hard, and writing docs and tests), but not the ones you
> > don't (if you're getting paralyzed because you need more data and
> > it's impossible to get that data, then skip it)
>
> But don't just skip it. Mark it as being skipped. Say what's being
> skipped in the code and documentation. Say what's paralysing you. Then
> someone else will be warned that dragons may lurk. And someone with
> different resources may know what's worth contributing.
Sure, or talk about it on the mailing list, whatever's most
appropriate.
I get the impression that the inventory fixes, for instance, are just
stalled because everyone is nervous there are things they haven't
thought of and that could be arbitrarily bad, I mean who *knows* what
you haven't thought of, you certainly don't... of course, in the mean
time, inventory is known to be quite broken, with certainty :-).
-- Nathaniel
--
"Of course, the entire effort is to put oneself
Outside the ordinary range
Of what are called statistics."
-- Stephan Spender
- Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua), (continued)
- Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua), Derek Scherger, 2007/09/04
- Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua), Nathaniel Smith, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua), hendrik, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] New commands (for mtn, in lua),
Nathaniel Smith <=
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Richard Levitte, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Derek Scherger, 2007/09/05
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2007/09/11
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Derek Scherger, 2007/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2007/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Thomas Keller, 2007/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Derek Scherger, 2007/09/12
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Stephen Leake, 2007/09/13
- Re: [Monotone-devel] automate inventory, Thomas Keller, 2007/09/06