[zeromq-dev] CZMQ community & red cards

[Brian Knox]

I have directly addressed a statement about the CZMQ maintainers which was
factually incorrect.  This statement was not made by Pieter, it was made by
mrvn:

"That is something the czmq maintainers are exceedingly bad at. The sad
thing is the "we merge everything and then fix it if its broken"
behaviour is in direct opposition to the C4.1 rules."

As I have now stated more than once and documented, we do not "merge
everything and then fix it if it's broken."

I've already described my personal feelings about the side effects of
mrvn's involvement in the community, as was requested.

I have no interest in the rest of this discussion.

Brian

On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 9:10 AM, <rf at q-leap.de> wrote:

> >>>>> "Brian" == Brian Knox <bknox at digitalocean.com> writes:
>
>     Roland>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     Roland> Citation Brian
>     Roland> (
> http://lists.zeromq.org/pipermail/zeromq-dev/2014-October/027554.html)
>     Roland> "We do not merge everything and then fix it if it is
>     Roland> broken. Your statement is empirically false."
>
>     Roland> Citation Pieter (https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/pull/673):
>     Roland> "I treat a pull request as a request to merge. I blindly
>     Roland> merge everything, and fix up afterwards (or complain if that
>     Roland> feels too painful) :-)"
>
>     Roland> Hmm, which one is right now???
>     Roland>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     Brian> Here are the facts concerning my statement.
>
>     Brian> 1) We have a continuous integration system in place
>     Brian>    (travis-ci).
>
>     Brian> 2) All pull requests to CZMQ are run through travis-ci
>     Brian>    against multiple
>     Brian> versions of libzmq:
>     Brian> https://github.com/zeromq/czmq/blob/master/.travis.yml
>
>     Brian> 3) When pull requests break the build on travis-ci,
>     Brian>    discussion takes place
>     Brian> and in general the requests are not merged until they are
>     Brian> fixed.  These discussions are easy to find.
>
> Sounds good. Thanks for the clarification. Unfortunately, breaking a
> build is only one aspect of broken code ... and usually the most
> harmless since easy to detect.
>
>     Brian> 4) Nowhere in Pieter's statement does he say he merges broken
>     Brian>    code.
>
> In any case, the definition of "everything" as I know it, would mean
> ***everything*** which includes broken code. If you have a different
> definition, please elaborate.
>
> Roland
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