svn commit: r358722 - head/Mk

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Jun 23 18:45:07 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 06:54:59PM +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 09:37:25AM -0700, Eitan Adler wrote:
> > I'll copy what I wrote on phabricator:
> > 
> > If anything, the recent commits proved that this statement is exactly
> > opposite of what it should be.
> > 
> > People add entries too easily, not realizing that this file is just a
> > default. This means that new entries are often too general or useless.
> > 
> > Also, people are too discouraged to change the descriptions when they
> > are useless.
> > 
> That is your opinion other people have a different opinion here

Guys, come on.  There's no need to fight here.  As one of the authors
of a large fraction of those descriptions, I can tell you that there's
nothing hard about keeping them precise yet elaborative enough.  Few
occasional mistakes is just a normal workflow: see it, argue on it, fix
it.

./danfe


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