On Thursday 10 April 2014 18:25:43 Ian Jackson wrote:
> Sune Vuorela writes ("Re: Bug#741573: Two menu systems"):
> > if it takes 5 minutes to write a menu file and 5 minutes to switch to one
> > of those 'old style' window managers and test that it shows up as it
> > should, it is 3000 minutes. Or 1 hour per week in a year.
>
> I don't think you need to test it, if you don't want to. For
> something like a menu file it is perfectly fine to simply take the
> patch, as-is, when it's provided.
I do understand your POV in that "a menu file it's simple enough" [simple] but
I also read a lot of people complaining about us maintainers not testing our
packages [0] and now we are suggested to not test a patch, even if it's small
or "simple".
So, for the sake of coherence, I will not buy that argument.
[simple] as long as you remember the format. I don't.
[0] I do also recognize that sometimes it's practically impossible to test
everything, and there is always the human factor to have mistakes.
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