On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 04/04/11 20:57, H.J. Lu wrote: >> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Law <l...@redhat.com> wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 04/04/11 16:20, H.J. Lu wrote: >>>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb....@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> My proposal would be: A patch may be reverted immediately by anyone >>>>> with SVN write access if bootstrap is broken for more than 24 hours on >>>>> any primary target. With proper notification to everyone involved, >>>>> obviously. >>>> >>>> I agree. >>>> >>>> FWIW, I reported the breakage and identified the cause within 8 hours of >>>> the initial checkin. >>> A report 8 hrs after a checkin may fall outside working for some >>> developers, so they won't see it until the next work day. Obviously the >>> developer would be expected to address the problem ASAP, but let's not >>> get out of hand on reverting patches. >>> >> >> Patch was checked in at Fri Apr 1 17:46:17 2011. I reported the failure >> at 2011-04-01 18:49:28 and identified the range of causes. It is too bad >> to take 3 days to fix it. > Note the checking was Friday evening, it's entirely possible that the > offender has a life and didn't work over the weekend. >
That is one major point. Many GCC developers may only have time to work on GCC on weekends. -- H.J.
