Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] 1000 line limit for contributions

["Sievers, Jan" <jan.sievers@xxxxxxx>]

If everybody tells me there are ways to dodge around that rule (and of course I know there are), the question arises why do we have the rule in the first place. Seems a little absurd to me.

the effort is not minimal if I have to artificially split up commits.
Or maybe you expect me to explain to contributors:

"look, we have this process but nobody takes it serious anyway. so please split up your commit into several < 1000 LOC chunks" ?

Best Regards,
Jan



On 19/11/15 11:00, "cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Ed Willink" <cross-project-issues-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi
>
>Presumably you put tests in a separate plugin, so splitting off the 
>tests as a separate contribution gets you twice the limit with minimal 
>effort.
>
>Perhaps a 10000 line limit might be appropriate for non-deliverable code 
>such as tests and build tools.
>
>     Regards
>
>         Ed Willink
>
>
>
>On 19/11/2015 09:49, Sievers, Jan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the course of
>>
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=477328
>>
>>
>> we had a contribution that slightly exceeded 1000 lines and thus needed a CQ.
>> It took about one month to review it.
>>
>> I am sure the legal team does its very best to keep up with the load, so the following is in no way a criticism of the
>> people who actually do the legal review.
>>
>> Rather take it as food for thought to whoever set up this rule.
>>
>> IMHO the 1000 line rule is effectively setting the wrong incentives for a thriving opensource project.
>>
>> Here is why I think so:
>>
>>
>> The most diligent contributors add a lot of tests to their patch to prove it works.
>> This is a good thing and we actively encourage contributors to thoroughly test.
>> Test code can easily outweigh productive code being tested in terms of LOC.
>> However this means the most diligent contributors, i.e. the ones you want to attract, are more likely to hit the 1000 line limit.
>> Instead of thanking them for their hard work, we effectively punish them with an extra month or more wait time before their patch can be merged.
>> Apart from that, the 1000 line limit seems arbitrary to me because technically you can split up any commit into any number
>> of smaller commits below the 1000 line limit.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Jan
>>
>>   
>>
>>
>>
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