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Re: DMUP violated? / Proposal: devel/website/using_cvs.wml



On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:19:49AM +0200, Florian Ernst wrote:
> as CVS allows people to work independently and in the scope they
> prefer I saw no reason not to commit my first changes in small
> blocks to make sure I solely change what I intented to change, i.e.
> I fixed a spelling error in the english page and bumped the
> translation-check header in all applicable translations using the fine
> smart_change.pl, then committed this small block.
> I knew about the debian-www-cvs mailing list but thought this is
> acceptable, after all the system is set up for many changes.

I prefer GCC's description of the proper size for a patch[1]:

 Ideally, each change you send should be impossible to subdivide
 into parts that we might want to consider separately, because
 each of its parts gets its motivation from the other parts.

but I don't think that represents the consensus here.

-- 
Matt Kraai            kraai@ftbfs.org            http://ftbfs.org/

1. http://gcc.gnu.org/contribute.html

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