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Re: OCA Dev & Deploy Tooling PSC

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Leonardo Pistone
- 21/10/2015 17:41:04
On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:07 PM, David Arnold <dar@devco.co> wrote:
> Nhomar, please try to correct your statement in the light of my last mail.

David, please do not take this personally. Nhomar and Pedro have every
right to disapprove, and I am with them on this.

To be clear, let me explain what I would personally love from a contributor

Yes:

- Please please please, do a lot code review. There are hundreds of
open pull requests. If you're a developer, you can find bugs and
issues in the code. If you are a functional expert, use runbot to test
the functionality, find bugs and other issues.
- if you are a developer, make pull requests that do specific
improvements: modules, fixes, extensions.
- *after* you did plenty of the above, *then* you can have plenty of
good ideas on how to improve things. Propositions are welcome!
- hang out on IRC and help people that ask questions

No:

- if you open an issue, just open it, do not ping all the community in
multiple, long messages. example:
https://github.com/odoo/odoo/issues/1640#issuecomment-51772680 If you
report problems in windows line endings, do yourself the job of
finding out which files actually have the problem: turns out  I had to
do the job (there were only 3 in the pypdf library).
- Do not post for every fashionable technology that people talk about
without actually using the current one. For example: 1. if you do not
use IRC, don't propose replacing it. 2. If you don't use buildout, do
not hijack the thread to say that it would be cooler to use docker
instead.

Best,
Leonardo

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