Re: Fixes to jazz chord displays (issue 5320074)

[Adam Spiers]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Graham Percival
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 11:56:42AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
>> Thanks Carl, I've made these changes, and I've also made a corresponding
>> patch for changes.tely, but I don't think I have permission to upload
>> new patch sets for either to this issue since it says "Can't Edit" at
>> the top-left - can you give me permission?
>
> I doubt it.  Just upload a new issue.

So then we would have *three* Rietveld issues tracking the
same thing.

>> (If not, this is yet another
>> reason Rietveld sucks.  It all seems way too locked down to me.)
>
> It's not build for collaborate patch editing.  The idea is that
> you have a patch, you upload it.  Make a few small modifications,
> go ahead and upload it to the same rietveld number... but anything
> major and you should just make a new rietveld number.  Numbers are
> cheap, after all.
>
> Note that problems like this are fairly rare.  If we had an active
> "frog meister", he'd be taking care rieveld for any inexperienced
> contributors.  And experienced developers like you would be
> directed to git-cl, so nobody would have uploaded any patches for
> you anyway.

Understood, but I still think this workflow is fundamentally flawed.
However I'm aware this is not the time nor place to discuss this
further.