[jboss-dev] New Break the Build Policy - testsuite - discussion

[Jason T. Greene]

Adrian Brock wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 11:17 -0500, David M. Lloyd wrote:
>> The thing I want to emphasize is that the burden should be on the 
>> breaker, not the one who reverts the patch, to do the extra branching and 
>> testing and so on.
>>
> 
> Amen to that. :-)
> 
> I'd even go further. If there are multiple commits that are rolled back
> because we don't know which one broke things, then once we find out
> who it broke it, they should have to re-apply the patches for those
> other innocent bystanders.
> 
> But then can we trust a serial build breaker to reapply somebody
> else's patches correctly? ;-)

Quite the dilemma, perhaps fear of being placed in the iron maiden would 
help.

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Jason T. Greene
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