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This is a cryptic / sarcastic commit message throwing shade at Rockchip because their chip had a hardware bug counting 31 days in November. Looks like it's cau
by diebeforei485 5y ago
This is a cryptic / sarcastic commit message throwing shade at Rockchip because their chip had a hardware bug counting 31 days in November.
Looks like it's caused confusion just 5 years later. Commit messages ideally shouldn't be like this, they're meant to be read by other humans in the future.
- slver 5y agoI'm learning all the wrong lessons here. Like, I'm super tempted, to file my next bug as "Flaw in laws of universal order causing perfect software to misbehave in specific conditions"
- st_goliath 5y ago> Looks like it's caused confusion just 5 years later. No. The commit message is perfectly clear, the first line (the one highlighted in bold, which was also the subject line on the original mail) summarizes exactly what this is about, the first paragraph, although containing some mild sarcasm, is IMO perfectly clear about what the exact problem is and the second part explains how it is solved. The only thing that is causing confusion is the headline on HN, by ripping a single sentence completely out of context. EDIT: The title has now been changed to something less clickbaity. At the time I wrote this comment, it was "in 2013 Rockchip hardware engineers found that the new Gregorian calendar still contained flaws"