On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Richard Earnshaw <rearn...@arm.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-04-05 at 08:58 -0600, Jeff Law wrote: >> And what precisely does "immediately" mean in this context? 1 hour, 3 >> hours? If the breakage happens on a Friday evening, does the >> developer >> have until Monday morning to at least take a looksie? > > I don't think developers should be committing patches immediately before > leaving for the weekend if there's a reasonable chance of it affecting > an untested target. It's discourteous to other developers to > potentially break the tree for an entire weekend. >
Also please avoid checking in such patches before leaving on vacation :-(. Yes, it did happen at the end of 2010. -- H.J.
