[Development] QCS2016 Session Notes - QUIPs for Qt

[André Pönitz]

On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 03:29:01PM +0300, Konstantin Tokarev wrote:
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> 21.11.2016, 15:26, "Giuseppe D'Angelo" <dangelog at gmail.com>:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2016 at 12:58 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen
> > <oswald.buddenhagen at qt.io> wrote:
> >>>  Any idea to how to actually make this work?
> >>  how about taking the existing processes seriously and exercising social
> >>  pressure on those who think they are above them?
> >
> > May I just say that prefer a tool that mandates a workflow over using
> > political and social pressures, which in the long term hurt the
> > project?
> 
> Well, tools cannot help with social issues, and ignoring review comments is
> more like the latter.

Well, right, and wrong, kind of ;-)

I think tools can help to *prevent* social issues. As example, I think it
easier for people to accept a -1 from the Sanity Bot than to accept
exactly the same comment from a human reviewer, specifically when it
comes to arbitrary choices like prefering American over British spelling
in comments. With the bot I usually just swallow and "fix" the issue,
no matter how insane it appears to me.

Sounds irrational? It is. It is human. 

Andre'