Re: Another misleading commit log (was Re: A "cosmetic changes" commit that removes security fixes)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Léo,

> On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 13:40 -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> > This commit was digitally signed and pushed to the 'wip-gnome' 
> > branch
> > by
> > Raghav, but it's also "Signed-off-by: Léo Le Bouter", so I'm 
> > not sure
> > who bears primary responsibility for this one.
> It seems you are more focused and spend more time sending 
> accusations
> here than collaboratively working to improve GNU Guix. I don't 
> feel
> like that's something great to do at all.
Please try to deescalate.

While I disagree with Mark’s earlier style and harsh tone towards 
Raghav (who has been trying to get more of his older commits that 
are relevant for a speedy upgrade of Gnome in shape), it seems 
obvious now that Mark attempts to understand what signing off on 
the changed commit means in this case – what motivated the 
expansion of the scope of the commit, what resulted in not 
declaring all of the significant changes.
I do think it is reasonable to expect an explanation, so that we 
can collectively address the potential issue (patches removed 
without upgrade), and prevent it from happening again.
Escalating the situation by insinuating bad faith does not serve 
any constructive purpose.  Obstructing the investigation into what 
happened will only make it harder to prevent it from happening 
again.  It is in our shared interest to prevent problems like 
this.  Also note that Guix has a pretty good track record when it 
comes to clear commits, so it is not unusual for long term 
contributors to be at the very least confused by what has happened 
here.
--
Ricardo