* Graham Percival wrote on Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 07:14:37PM CET: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > * Carl Sorensen wrote on Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 06:34:59PM CET: > >> In order to be sure a one-line patch doesn't break the build, we need to to > >> make doc-clean && make doc, > > > > That simply means that there is a bug in the build system, in that it > > doesn't track all dependencies. > > Patches appreciated.
Of course. I'd love to contribute if I had time. > > The right way forward is to fix the > > build system, not punish (new nor old) contributors. > > Until we can trust the build system, we shouldn't consider reverting a > patch to be punishment. It's just a social workaround to a technical > bug which nobody has fixed (and frankly, which I doubt will ever be > fixed). Right; sorry for being sloppy. I considered 'make doc-clean && make doc' the punishment for (new and old) contributors, and broken git punishment for new contributors. Reversion just a workaround until the build system works, not a punishment; at least not of the person whose patch is reverted. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
