2016-12-07 23:58 GMT+01:00 Urs Liska <u...@openlilylib.org>: > > > Am 7. Dezember 2016 23:34:39 MEZ, schrieb Graham Percival > <gra...@percival-music.ca>: >>I was going to wait a month or two before suggesting this, just to >>make sure I was fully "up to date", but I'll jump in now. >> >>We instituted the policy of patch countdowns and Patchy after the >>lengthy wait for 2.14.0, which was due to a large number of >>regression bugs due to patches which either broke the compile, or >>broke previously-working output. >> >>However, even after that, I still pushed some commits directly to >>staging, bypassing the countdown. Obviously I did this for >>updating the VERSION when making a release, but I also did it for >>a few typo fixes as well. >> >>Is this still an accepted practice? If not, I suggest that it >>should be. If I had to formalize it, I'd say something like "if >>two developers with push ability agree that a fix is trivial and >>obvious, it can go straight to staging". >> > > Yes, this is still common practice. > Developers can and do take this liberty occasionally.
Indeed. > An alternative giving some extra safety is to upload a patch and wait for the > first automated tests before pushing to staging. That's how I personally do it, even for most trivial patches. (It's too asy to delete a bracket or something else by accident, not noticing it.) Cheers, Harm > > In the current case the point is not that it would take a significant effort > to update the news but rather that it's not woth touching at all, given the > temporary nature of the information. > > Urs > >> >>(please note that I'm not suggesting that anybody should feel >>obligated to make such typo fixes -- instead, I'm checking that >>the "door is open". So that if we manage to get 1 or 2 users who >>are able to fix typos, and those fixes are very obvious, they >>wouldn't need to wait 2-4 days. In this case, the "two >>developers" would be "1 mentor, and the release or patch >>meister".) >> >>Cheers, >>- Graham >> >>_______________________________________________ >>lilypond-devel mailing list >>lilypond-devel@gnu.org >>https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel > > -- > Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Mobiltelefon mit K-9 Mail gesendet. > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-devel mailing list > lilypond-devel@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel _______________________________________________ lilypond-devel mailing list lilypond-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-devel
