I actually like the auto-detect idea! As long as we still have an option to turn it off in case it is misbehaving :)
Marc-André Laverdière Software Security Scientist Innovation Labs, Tata Consultancy Services Hyderabad, India On Tue 27 Sep 2011 02:03:59 PM IST, Michael Meeks wrote: > Hi Marc, > > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 10:06 +0530, Marc-André Laverdière wrote: >> That experience lead me to believe that the policy >> should be "make it easy for the n00b". > > Quite; easy, and friendly too :-) > >> When I tried using this flag, I ended up not being able to _build_ at >> all. And that wasn't even due to my own mistake, only some module I >> know nothing at all is breaking the build. > > Sure sure, so - I think Stephan has a point - that we ought to find > some way of enabling this for some set of people that can cope with it. > I suspect a good heuristic would be to have an 'auto' mode for the flag > that checks if you have git push access and if so enables -Werror, so > that old-hands get it automatically, and newbies don't suffer. > >> My point is that building for a n00b should be very simple. > > Quite - it is difficult enough as it is; fret not - personally I'm not > in favour of -Werror for all - only of the TSC deciding what to do > here :-) We'll discuss it at our next meeting. > > ATB, > > Michael. > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice