Discussion of Spells and Grimoire items

[Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>]

Quoting Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>:
> What will be the simplest way to flag a spell as not ready for integration ?
> it needs to be simple ?
> often broken spells are getting integrated just because the integrator
> doesn't 
> know there is a problem with the spell.
> A minor example ( and maybe a bad one) is orbitcpp and libbonobomm
> the libbonobomm version now in stable doesn't compile against the version of
> 
> orbitcpp in the same grimoire, but if the orbitcpp spell in test had a 0 
> byte
> 
> WIP file it wouldn't have been integrated and stable wouldn't now be broken 
> and in need of attention. ( I am not trying to blame anyone,I have done the 
> same thing and regretted it, I just want these niggling bugs eradicated 
> through a good procedures not hard work after the fact.)
> It would be easy to simply touch */$section/$spell/WIP && p4 add */$section/
> $spell/WIP to avoid these issues later on .
> Would this be a good idea or am I just typing to hear the sound of my own 
> keyboard ?
> Hamish

That doesn't sound like a bad idea, probably better than only posting to the
list (though posting a message to sm-grimoire would be a good idea as well).

When integrating I hadn't thought that there was a problem with those 
packages,
as I was sure I had libbonobo installed (which I do, just not *mm).  It's easy
enough to revert, I'll work on doing that tonight.

-sandalle

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