[gobolinux-users] Call for volunteers: would you like to be a recipe committer?

[MJ Ray]

hisham.hm at gmail.com wrote:
> [...] the more automated the patching process is, the riskier. Humans
> are lazy beings; the possibility of an oversight is greater than if
> the human has to consciously go through the whole process by hand. One
> might argue that more human involvement can lead to more human error,
> but humans are the only ones I trust when it comes down to program
> semantics. The ideal revision control system to me would NEVER to
> auto-merging.

Trouble is, most people try to merge things as quickly as possible, to
try to fix some problem, and so make the human error of trying to
merge them more quickly than possible, ending up with more errors.

Then there's the problem that humans are lazy beings and if given a
choice between sitting there playing a dumb terminal picking simple
left-right decisions, and doing nothing, they'll probably do nothing.
What is needed is a system that makes the simple decisions for them
and just leaves them with the interesting ones and - oh look, that's
an auto-merger! ;-)

Regards,
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