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[Tom Berger <tom.berger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11 March 2010 15:51, Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I had to make a change to sample data to accommodate a migration script.
> `make lint` correctly reported there was problem and told me to run
> makenewsampledata. I was surprised to see hundreds of lines changed for
> when the migration script only added 15 lines. Most of the changes
> relate to bug heat schema changes. This is not the first time this has
> happened to me. In fact, this has always happened to me.
>
> I add the sampledata check to make lint because engineers were
> complaining that they could not find their changes in the diff. I added
> this feature because it was requested, but I think I am the only
> engineer who is fixing the data. I want to remove this feature...this is
> not my problem.
>
> Since make lint will always report the issue, I strongly suspect
> engineers are not running make lint at all.

Another thing that happens quite a lot (and I must admit I'm guilty
myself) is that people do run lint, but ignore warnings that they know
for certain are not a result of the changes they introduced. If we
want to enforce lint we could have buildbot run it, but if we do we'll
have to make sure it produces a reasonable set of warnings.