Are all patches created equal?
Are all patches created equal?
Posted Jul 21, 2011 8:25 UTC (Thu) by wsa (guest, #52415)Parent article: Are all patches created equal?
Dropping 'staging' from the stats (or make separate staging-stats once in a while) would be a step in the right direction IMO. There _is_ valuable work done there, yet the majority of patches are adding/removing/cleaning stuff and are more of the "lower value" kind. While dropping that from the stats might be unfair to some, it is less unfair in general, I'd think.
Posted Jul 22, 2011 17:46 UTC (Fri)
by Lovechild (guest, #3592)
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We set these standards for a reason and we should "reward" those who make a serious effort to live up to them.
Are all patches created equal?
I think it would unfairly unvalue people such as Microsoft who have clearly invested heavily in cleaning up their code and making it conform to the Linux coding standards.