[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/3] vala: add vala/valac wrapper

[Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout@mind.be>]

On 02/23/16 10:48, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 10:42:24 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:
> 
>>  This could indeed be a good idea. One reason to limit the number of committers
>> was to avoid conflicts (i.e. two committers working on the same patch in
>> parallel), but as I understand it, Thomas and Peter noticed that this isn't
>> really a problem in practice.
>>
>>  So indeed, having a third person that applies trivial patches could be
>> worthwhile to try.
>>
>>  That said, Yann and I are already spending a large part of our buildroot time
>> on reviewing patches. I don't think that applying them immediately is going to
>> make that much of a difference.
> 
> Fully agreed: applying the patch is clearly not what takes time. It's a
> mechanical and stupid operation.
> 
> What takes time is that when there is no Acked-by/Reviewed-by/Tested-by
> from a trusted person and the patch is not obviously trivial, then I
> have to go review the patch myself entirely. Download the source code,
> check that the license is correct, verify that optional dependencies
> are properly handled, build in a few basic situations, etc. All those
> steps I skip when there has been some previous A/R/T tags given by
> trusted persons.
> 
> When I see that Arnout or Yann has started reviewing a specific patch
> or patch series, I assume that they will continue to handle the
> discussion with the submitter until they give their
> Acked-by/Reviewed-by. And therefore, I simply skip that patch or patch
> series, and move on to other topics.
> 
> So what *really* saves time is people reviewing and testing patches. Of
> course, the more "trusted" those persons are, the more valuable this
> effort is. Gustavo, you're a person with a high trust, but
> unfortunately, you're doing none of this review/testing effort.

 There is one indirect gain, however. In case something needs to be fixed up
(not quite the majority but still a significant subset of the patches), then
Yann and I currently just give comments and wait for a v2 of the patch. This
often leads to several iterations. Fixing the patch right away and pushing it
will take less time.

 Regards,
 Arnout

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