[oe] `PR = "r0"`: Add or not to add?

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2011/8/31 Koen Kooi <koen at dominion.thruhere.net>

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> Op 31-08-11 12:06, Paul Menzel schreef:
> > Am Mittwoch, den 31.08.2011, 09:15 +0200 schrieb Koen Kooi:
> >> Op 31-08-11 01:06, Andreas Müller schreef:
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> >> please remove PR in new recipes
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> > Actually I would favor to leave them in.
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> Well I don't, and atm I decide if it goes in or not.
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Ah. God is back. (btw who decided you are the decision maker for these
things?).

Somehow  I had the impression that the number of active contributors in OE
was diminishing; Guess I now understand why.
Statements like this are probably not the best way to run a community
project and/or keep people motivated.


> > The manual also advises to do this.
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> The manual says a lot of things and was written for .dev, not OE-core or
> meta-oe.
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Then make sure that people know how do do things (e.g. by updating the
manual for OE_core and/or meta-oe)

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> > To change that policy, I would favor a survey/poll so that not every
> developers says something different as s/he sees best fit.
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> Be sure to include every other variable with a default in that poll in
> order to be consistent.
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> There is quite a difference between this variable and most others.
If one changes a recipe a PR change is in virtually all cases mandatory.
Having a line
PR = "r0"
in the recipe increases the chance that updating PR is not forgotten.
(and most, if not all, other variables with a default value will not change
when a recipe is updated).

My two cents.
Do with it whatever you want to.

Frans.