gerrit review comments

Again it is brought to my attention that my gerrit review causes annoyance. There is a recurring theme here, so I'd like to address all patch submitters. I feel like it's a Good Thing to mark *everything* I notice: "I've read your patch, and these are all the details I found, in case you'd like to address them." I see it as a courtesy towards the patch submitter. For some reason though I turn out to upset rather than help?? My (wrong?) impression is that these are normal reviews as I've given them as well as received them hundreds of times over the last decade+. In my world, adjusting my patches N times is normal, I make mistakes all the time. But I certainly don't want to upset: I'd really like to find out what I can change to make everyone's hacking smoother. In all my previous projects I got used to very high code scrutiny, and when starting on Osmocom, Holger's review of my patches has continued on the same high level ... often I had to revisit large amounts of my code. Thus primed, I find it hard to ignore irregularities: most of them mean the code becomes less stable or less maintainable/readable. Usually I'm trying to understand what the patch does or intends, and want to make sure future readers of the code can also understand easily. The idea is to save time in the long run. If you disagree with me or see inconsistencies, please let me know, whether a patch is merged or not. Maybe I oversaw something or maybe I'm just plain wrong. The mood I'd like to convey is: "yes, I trust you that all these patches are an improvement. I invested some of my time in your work with the goal to merge it soon. And here's everything that caught my attention; do you agree?" Ideally we can reach high code standards and at the same time collaborate productively. None of my gerrit comments or -1 votes are intended to convey emotion... Feel free to mail or jabber or talk to me, also privately, on these issues anytime! And feel free to ignore nitpicks if you don't care enough. ~N