Github user terbolous commented on the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/pull/372#issuecomment-110257923
I'm with Wilder & co on this.
If you break it down, it's easier to test and thus merge.
For instance, the mysql licensing could now potentially hold the complete
PR, while tomcat/jetty changes are irrelevant and could've been merged (if
tested and verified working).
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Erik
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:10 AM, Rafael da Fonseca <notificati...@github.com>
wrote:
> Hi @wilderrodrigues <https://github.com/wilderrodrigues> , @serverchief
> <https://github.com/serverchief>
>
> Thank you for your feedback :)
>
> I understand your point, but since there are a lot of changes and most are
> interconnected or change the same files, breaking it down would make it
> take a long time to get things done and i'm used to working fast with a
lot
> of changes, sorry about that ;) . This is still not all the cleaning up
i'd
> like to do in packaging, and packing it all together makes it also a lot
> faster to test for issues, than to do complete tests for a big bunch of
PRs
> individually, although a complete code review will be a bit taxing of
> course, either way, reviewing 5x 200 lines of code, should be no faster
> than to review 1000 line of code once, although testing packaging and
> functionality once is a lot faster than doing it 5x, don't you agree?
>
> I will try to break down a some things in the coming days like i did with
> the last packaging PR, but ultimately, the work goes a lot faster if i'm
> not waiting for each individual change to get reviewed and merged before
> moving on to the next step to improve the same thing. This is a particular
> case because all the changes revolve around the same things: packaging and
> distribution.
> Either way, this allows for people to test once and make sure everything
> is working.. if any issues are reported i'll be sure to fix them, and not
> go back in time ;)
>
> I will also be sure to review all the changes myself and add anything
> relevant i may have forgotten about, if any, to the initial comment to
make
> it easier to follow :)
> Merging the whole PR would speed things up considerably and allow me to
> continue improving packaging with a new base, but i'm not expecting to see
> this through overnight of course :)
> Ultimately it was easier and faster to get everything done in the same
> branch and fix issues as they arose in my testing. This just gets it all
> out there at once for the community to comment on and test as a whole.
>
> Other than this packaging PR which is something that needed an overhaul in
> my opinion, I will try to keep my PRs as small as possible as you have
> suggested.
>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
> â
> Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub
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