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Re: commits made directly to 1.5.x

From: Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis <arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 20:49:05 +0200

2008-05-29 20:01:20 Lieven Govaerts napisaƂ(a):
> Stefan Sperling wrote:
> > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:58:14PM -0400, Mark Phippard wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Lieven Govaerts <svnlgo_at_mobsol.be> wrote:
> >>
> >>> As simple as this change might be, it breaks one of the getopt tests. The getopt tests are one of the only tests really matching the actual
> >>> string content character per character. I know these tests are overly strict, but while we have them I propose you run at least those
> >>> before you commit a text change inside the code.
> >>>
> >> And as you said in the other email, why are we doing direct commits to
> >> the branch, without going through STATUS or even a dev@ email, right
> >> before we are about to make the release?
> >>
> >
> > Shouldn't we immediately back out r31503 and r31506, both of which were
> > directly committed to 1.5.x without being voted for in STATUS?
>
> While I don't think r31503 and r31506 were urgent 1.5.x material, they
> don't do much harm either. They're included in RC8 now, so the cost of
> rolling them back (ie; RC9) will be bigger than the benefit.
>
> Let's just avoid this situation in the future.

+1

-- 
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis

Received on 2008-05-29 21:04:44 CEST

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