On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:03:22PM -0400, Johan Tibell wrote:
Hi all,
During the work on the containers library, I felt that it's too difficult to contribute non-functional changes to the libraries managed by the libraries list. If you look at repos of libraries managed by individuals, rather than the libraries list, you see a smattering of small changes that improve: the internal structure, the docs, the tests, and (if you're lucky) the benchmarks of the library.
I'd like to see (and make) more non-functional changes to the core libraries, but currently I feel that the overhead of creating a ticket, writing an email, etc., is too large; what should be a 5-minute change stretches to over two weeks. I argue that's the reason we don't see many small, but important, changes to the core libraries.
Proposal:
Non-functional changes should be allowed without review by the libraries list. Such changes can be commited directly, if the commiter has access to the repo, or attached to a "please merge" ticket on the bug tracker.
+1 from me. I know I'd probably submit some minor documentation enhancements and the like if the process was a bit easier for such things. -Brent