> On Fri, 4 Jun 1999, Brian Somers wrote:
>
> > The system was becoming unstable due to Matts changes. Whether the
> > instabilities were in Matts code or somewhere else is irrelevent.
> > The reaction was (IMHO) the right thing to do.
>
> I think where the problem lied is very relevent.
>
> If the problems are not his fault are you saying he should have backed
> out his changes because they exposed old faulty code? What kind of
> progress is that?
I'm not saying he should have backed out his changes, I'm saying that
they shouldn't have been made - that's why removing the commit bit
was the right move.
And just to head off the inevitable follow-up; for more trivial code,
such a hostile reaction isn't necessary. There are lots of people
around that can just fix the code, with the side-effect of giving the
coder a subtle slap on the wrist.
--
Brian <br...@awfulhak.org> <br...@freebsd.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org> <br...@openbsd.org>
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