[PATCH wayland] contributing: review rules for bugs

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 10:41:43 +0100
Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 28 June 2018 at 10:12, Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > It's the spirit of the guidelines that matters, they are not to be
> > interpreted by the letter, and there may always be special
> > circumstances where the reasonable action is to overlook something.
> > Even with the guidelines, we still rely very much on the individual
> > judgement. The important thing is to get people to the right mindset in
> > general.
> >
> > Perhaps the above would be worth a paragraph in CONTRUBUTING.md?
> >  
> It was meant as food for thought, inspired by some long threads I've
> seen where devs discuss various compiler warnings.
> You're spot on being terse and providing a feel (or spirit as you call
> it) is the key point.
> 
> Apologies for the distraction this has caused :-\

Oh, no worries, these are important things to discuss, so we set up the
right expectations.

I think I should add that paragraph to Review Section, exactly to set
the right mindset.


Thanks,
pq
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