[development] Trust (was: Hit and run contrib)

Earl Miles merlin at logrus.com
Sat May 31 16:05:41 UTC 2008


Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On the other hand, just recently I noticed a missing break; statement 
> somewhere in Views. Checked out with CVS. But it didn't directly concern me 
> or pose any problems to what I was doing, and opening up a new issue would 
> have taken more time and effort than I was willing to put in. Like, "someone 
> will probably fix it anyways". With commit access, I would have committed the 
> fix right away, and in the unlikely case that it's actually wrong (and a
> "// fall through" comment would be required instead) then Earl would have 
> noticed and fixed it the right way. It's probably still unfixed, I guess.
> 
> Now you can critizise me for being lazy, but I think this is symptomatic and 
> happens all the time. If we want to scale contrib, we need to lower the 
> contribution barrier for people who are able to fix stuff, while raising the 
> barrier for people who break stuff.

I just grepped and looked at 43 instances of switch() in Views 1.

I find one case that might look like a missing break in the theme 
wizard; and it's kind of odd. Otherwise, nada. Waste of my time.


More information about the development mailing list