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Wait, is he just changing version numbers? Suddenly he goes from most committed programmer ever to most...frivolous?

• scott_karana 13y ago
  Well, that could be the case, but they might also be testing the versions before updating them in the published gemfiles. It's still busywork, but that would at least be legitimate. :)
  • bhaak 13y ago
    Running the tests should still be completely automatable. If there are no tests and he tests manually, then there's some commits waiting that will improve the project. :-)
• freerobby 13y ago
  If this is "frivolous" then I sure wish I were a more frivolous coder. Someone has to do the "frivolous" work of keeping up to date on security patches so our apps are locked down. Someone has to make "frivolous" corrections of bad indentation so code is more readable for the rest of us. Someone has to write all those "frivolous" READMEs so people like me can get up and running. Thank goodness for frivolous work like this.
  • drdaeman 13y ago
    > Someone has to do the "frivolous" work Ahem... robots? It shouldn't require any human intervention to watch for changes and bump a version number. In fact, I guess, it didn't. Personally, I'd tolerate repetitive work for several days, maybe even a week, then I'd certainly hack a script and after several days of observation return only on script's "hey, I'm confused, please help me" notification.
    • dalore 13y ago
      3 great virtues of a programmer: - laziness - impatience - hubris