From: Giovanni Biscuolo <g@xelera.eu>
To: "Arun Isaac" <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>,
"Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
"Guix Devel" <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: GNU Guix maintainers <guix-maintainers@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy
Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2022 11:49:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tu8viix0.fsf@xelera.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877d5um1oe.fsf@systemreboot.net>
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Hi Arun,
Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net> writes:
> Tooling aside, at least for me, I think there is an important emotional
> and psychological aspect to patch review. Maybe others share it too. So,
> I'll speak up.
Thanks a lot for your speak up!
> Guix has very high coding standards
Do you think other software distribution do have less high coding
standards?
[...]
> but that means that there is a high cost of failure
please can you expand on this? What is that cost of failure?
> and a pressure to live up to that high standard. This means that even
> if I'm 99% sure of a commit, I tend to leave it to others because of
> that nagging 1% doubt I have about some trivial aspect of the
> patch. The 1% doubt could even be about really trivial things like
> indentation or the name of a variable. In other words, perfectionism
> causes paralysis.
generally speaking I really understand your feeling (the "impostor
syndrome" as Ludo' say) but please do not be paralyzed by this feeling,
do /not/ have fear to make a mistake, we (pluralis majestatis :-D ) are
not here to judge you
specifically speaking, IMHO in cases like this you should send an
email-reply to that bug (patch) explaining the 1% you are unsure of
> This excessive self-doubt is created by feeling like one doesn't
> "belong" in the elite community of Guix hackers
I undestand there are many meanings of "elite" [1], but if it's an elite
it is /for sure/ a very open group of persons
[...]
Thanks! Gio'
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/elite
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Giovanni Biscuolo
Xelera IT Infrastructures
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-08 9:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-02 15:10 On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 20:22 ` Brian Cully via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2022-06-03 19:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-03 21:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-07 7:08 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-07 15:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-08 11:39 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-08 21:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-20 12:53 ` Hartmut Goebel
2022-06-21 15:44 ` zimoun
2022-06-22 9:19 ` Munyoki Kilyungi
2022-06-02 20:32 ` Pier-Hugues Pellerin
2022-06-03 19:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-02 21:35 ` Luis Felipe
2022-06-03 8:22 ` Feed on specific topic (public-inbox?) zimoun
2022-06-03 10:51 ` zimoun
2022-06-06 12:11 ` On commit access, patch review, and remaining healthy Arun Isaac
2022-06-06 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-07 6:44 ` zimoun
2022-06-08 9:30 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-14 12:24 ` zimoun
2022-06-15 7:01 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-15 9:19 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-19 6:55 ` Paul Jewell
2022-06-20 12:11 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-15 15:11 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-08 10:54 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-09 19:55 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-08 9:49 ` Giovanni Biscuolo [this message]
2022-06-09 19:50 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-10 12:27 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 15:03 ` Efraim Flashner
2022-06-10 16:10 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 16:26 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-10 15:03 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-11 4:13 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2022-06-11 9:37 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-14 11:54 ` zimoun
2022-06-14 15:54 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-06-15 6:46 ` Arun Isaac
2022-06-13 12:19 ` Arun Isaac
[not found] <mailman.12124.1654864076.1231.guix-devel@gnu.org>
2022-06-12 8:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2022-06-12 9:42 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-12 13:10 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-13 9:34 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-13 10:48 ` Maxime Devos
2022-06-13 14:21 ` Giovanni Biscuolo
2022-06-12 8:21 ` Ricardo Wurmus
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