[jboss-dev] New Break the Build Policy - testsuite - discussion
Jason T. Greene
jason.greene at redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 03:57:22 EDT 2008
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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