Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:13:41 +0200 | From | Rene Herman <> | Subject | Re: Reporting bugs and bisection |
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On 14-04-08 08:24, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:39:43 +0100 Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> I have a related proposal: let us require all patches to be stamped >> with Discordian *and* Eternal September dates. In triplicate. While >> we are at it, why don't we introduce new mandatory headers like, say >> it, >> >> X-checkpatch: {Yes,No} >> X-checkpatch-why-not: <string> >> X-pointless: <number from 1 to 69, going from "1: does something useful" all >> the way to "68: aligns right ends of lines in comments"> >> X-arbitrary-rules-added-to-CodingStyle: <number> (should be present if >> and only if X-pointless: 69 is present). >> >> Come to think of that, we clearly need a new file in Documentation/*, >> documenting such headers. Why don't we organize a subcommittee^Wnew maillist >> devoted to that? That would provide another entry route for contributors, >> lowering the overall entry barriers even further... >> > > None of the above was particularly useful.
Does that mean you're not going to take patches that align the right end of lines in comments? :-(
Rene.
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