On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Diego Novillo <dnovi...@google.com> wrote: > 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.
Nobody asked for it and appearanty you didn't feel it's worth either. Richard. > > Diego. >
