Ben Hearsum writes:

> On 09/29/12 12:58 AM, Kannan Vijayan wrote:
>> 1. A patch that is expected to succeed, but you want to run it through
>> try to verify.
>
>> For "optimistic" pushes, we expect that the patch goes from green =>
>> green.  For "pessimistic" pushes we expect a listing of all oranges that
>> arise from that push.
>>
>
> I believe that these patches are exactly what inbound was designed for.

Bear in mind that as well as the temporary cost of backout in
inbound, there is also the close-to-eternal cost on archaeology
when trying to wade through annotations of several versions for
several similar landings.

inbound landings should be more certain than "optimistic".
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