On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:50, Eric Botcazou <ebotca...@adacore.com> wrote: >> I definitely think that if there is a policy change that an allowance be >> made for weekends/holidays and that if a patch has been identified and >> the offender has acknowledged the issue and is actively working on the >> problem give the offender time to resolve the issue. > > This weekends/holidays allowance would be dangerous and counter-productive: > people would rush to install risky changes on Friday and leave for the > week-end fingers crossed. This would be worse than the current policy IMO.
I agree. If it's broken, it should be taken out. It doesn't make a lot of difference to the patch owner, and if the fix takes more than a day or so to be produced, then the cost of the breakage is much higher. As an example, I recently broke ObjC++, and the fix for it took more than 3-4 days to get in. My patch should've been reverted in the meantime. Diego.
