Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-30 Thread Tyler Compton
> > This is a valid concern but since the tool remains under active > development, I would caution against making an assessment based on the > number of issues currently reported in the tracker. > Fair point! I'll reserve judgement in that case then. On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 9:57 PM K. Alex Mills

Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-30 Thread K. Alex Mills
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020, 10:34 PM Tyler Compton wrote: > This is a very interesting project! I went ahead and labeled a few of the > issues. However, much as I hate to pour cold water on the idea, I have some > doubts about how effective this approach can be. The githubvet bot has > reported over te

Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-30 Thread Tyler Compton
This is a very interesting project! I went ahead and labeled a few of the issues. However, much as I hate to pour cold water on the idea, I have some doubts about how effective this approach can be. The githubvet bot has reported over ten thousand issues so far, which is quite a lot. My gut feeling

Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-21 Thread Jan Mercl
On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 8:30 PM K. Alex Mills wrote: > I think that it would be best to keep our discussion of the proposed change > part of the relevant GitHub tracker to ensure the conversation can happen in > context of prior discussions. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen, and I am

Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-21 Thread K. Alex Mills
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020, 2:01 PM Jan Mercl <0xj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I expressed my concerns at the issue tracker in 2017 when I still had > a Github account. That's no more the case, so I'll take the > opportunity to make a comment here. I still believe that the intent to > change the behavior t

Re: [go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-20 Thread Jan Mercl
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 8:38 PM K. Alex Mills wrote: > During a Q&A session at this year's GopherCon, some members of the Go > language team indicated a willingness to modify the behavior of range loops > if we can be reasonably certain that the change will not cause incorrect > behavior in cu

[go-nuts] The GitHub Vet Project

2020-12-20 Thread K. Alex Mills
Hello Gophers! During a Q&A session at this year's GopherCon, some members of the Go language team indicated a willingness to modify the behavior of range loops *if* we can be reasonably certain that the change will not cause incorrect behavior in curren