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Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/05/11 06:23, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Bernd Schmidt <bernds@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>>> On 04/05/2011 08:26 AM, Steven Bosscher wrote:
>>>> I don't understand, really, why it's such a big deal to revert a patch
>>>> quickly if it broke something.
>>>
>>> To answer this as well, firstly a proposal that comes with a request to
>>> revert the wrong patch discredits itself.
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>> Agreed. Note that in this particular case (and in most cases I can
>> remember) the commit that broke things was identified correctly. This
>> is what HJ's autotester is really good at.
> It's reasonably good at identifying the breakage, but I have certainly
> had cases where the autotester got it wrong as well.
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I think what Steven proposed is for bootstrap failures on more than one
primary platforms. I don't see any harm to unblock GCC development
while offender can work on it off-trunk
BTW, I would recommend git mirror to work on such bugs off-trunk
It is so convenient.
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H.J.