<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 February 2012 19:52, Michael Van Canneyt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michael@freepascal.org">michael@freepascal.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Reinier Olislagers wrote:<br>
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On 29-2-2012 17:07, <a href="mailto:michael.vancanneyt-0Is9KJ9Sb0A@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">michael.vancanneyt-<u></u>0Is9KJ9Sb0A@public.gmane.org</a> wrote:<br>
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On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote:<br>
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Another question, are you and Florian Klaempfl the main or only<br>
contributors?<br>
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I am virtually the only one, but I do receive and apply minor patches<br>
from time to time.<br>
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*Cough*<br>
<a href="http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=20735" target="_blank">http://bugs.freepascal.org/<u></u>view.php?id=20735</a><br>
*cough*<br>
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I'd love to see that patch committed or get some feedback on it ;)<br>
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oh :/<br>
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I tried it at once when you submitted it.<br>
But there were quite some errors in the XML, which is why I left it for later...<br>
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.... and eventually forgot about it :(<br>
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My apologies for this.<br>
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I now corrected the XML and committed it. Rev 892.<br>
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Thank you for the contribution !<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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Michael.</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">Isn't this an example of what is considered wrong with the FPC/Lazarus processes?<br><br>At the very least if Reinier did not have the rights to commit, he should have had a duplicate set of the tools Michael used to check of the correctness of the file (assuming that it was not visually inspected). If there was some automated system capable of checking the file's syntax and accepting it, Reinier would have known straight away and fixed it immediately. Others who have registered an interest in that topic would also have been automatically emailed then they could review the correctness and quality of the contents etc. Perhaps they exist and I and a lot of others don't know about them.<br>
<br>At this stage it doesn't look like Reinier knows what the flaws in the file he submitted are, unless he diffs what Michael committed against what he submitted<br><br>Imagine what happens when more and more people submit docs and the extra work for the few people with commit rights.<br>
<br>There is also one thing. The documentation of the libraries and the compiler proper are different issues. In the case of the libraries shouldn't those who create them have commit rights in that area assuming that they have the tools to check the syntactic correctness of their submissions?<br>
<br>-- <br>Frank Church<br><br>=======================<br><a href="http://devblog.brahmancreations.com">http://devblog.brahmancreations.com</a><br>