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  • If a feature request requires changes of such a magnitude it is important to break them down into smaller chunks that can be reviewed either independently or sequentially.

    I have never rejected a PR before because no matter how bad a PR is, it always is technically necessary for the feature.

    Define bad? If the PR contains lots of unnecessary changes such as formatting or renaming simply tell the person to roll them back and come again unless they have very good reason to do so.

    If the code quality is bad, well, that’s why you are doing the review. If all that matters was “Does it do what it is supposed to do most of the time?” some simple unit tests would be enough. Reviewing code means making sure it does what is supposed to do and does so in an acceptable manner. Criteria can be amongst others speed, security, ease of use or maintainability.

    • Insecure handling of inputs? Add sanitisation and resubmit.
    • Overusage of resource intensive features such as database queries? Group and optimize queries and resubmit.
    • The codes formatting is not according to the internal style guide? Configure your damn linter and resubmit.

    If you don’t want to close PRs outright you can request new commits that fix the issues you identified, reevaluate the PR and decide again.









  • I guess you are misunderstanding my intention here.

    COVID is very much real. But people in this thread seem to believe there is some form of deliberate undercount of cases going on because our public health systems can’t deal with the number of infected.

    Just because news outlets don’t report hourly updates on case numbers, infection rates and whatnot doesn’t mean that there is an international effort going on to conceal the true extend of the situation. It means that COVID cases have reached a level that is no longer relevant for everyday life.

    As an airborne easily transmittable respiratory disease COVID isn’t going away. Just like Influenza. But 200 deaths linked to COVID per month worldwide? That’s a resounding success for our public health efforts!

    Compare that to the number of people Influenza kills directly or indirectly and tell me with a straight face that COVID is some form of superdisease that governments are hiding the true extend of.

    Not getting added to a registry for catching COVID anymore doesn’t mean there is no one monitoring the situation. It means that the overall spread is negligible enough that it doesn’t warrant tight controls.



  • You just don’t know how much is out there.

    Yeah, I don’t. Doesn’t mean though that public health officials and researchers simply stopped monitoring the situation. Just like the Flu COVID isn’t going to vanish. So what’s the point of continuing regular public status updates unless there is another critical situation brewing?

    As I’ve posted in another reply Influenza kills roughly 24,000 people per month directly or indirectly worldwide. That is in a good year. In bad years casualties can rise to as much as 54,000 per month. PER MONTH. Diseases such as Influenza and COVID simply can’t be eradicated because they are so easily transmitted and in the majority of cases only cause temporary discomfort.

    See why this is a ridiculous post?