> On 31 Jan 2020, at 08:46, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On 31/01/20 07:11, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> May I present you Armbru's Comment Trust Levels:
>>
>> ACTL2: The comment may be overly terse or incomplete, but the
>> probability for it to be outright wrong is low.
>>
>> ACTL1: Treat as helpful guidance (with gratitude), but trust only the
>> code.
>>
>> ACTL0: It is a tale Told by an idiot[**], full of sound and fury,
>> Signifying nothing.
>>
>> Most comments in decently maintained code are at ACTL1.
>>
>> Around the time initial QOM development solidified, object.h's comments
>> were ACTL2. The neglect that is now clearly visible there makes me
>> downgrade to ACTL1.
>>
>> Paolo will have a more informed and possibly different opinion.
>
> I think around initial development it was ACTL3, now it's around 1.8.
Interestingly, the initial doc suggested ACTL to be an whole value between
0 and 2. Now it’s fractional and value 3 has a meaning you can guess
to be “above 2”…
How fast this happened tells you everything you need to know about
documentation/specifications and actual implementations :-)
>
> Paolo
>