Re: PATCH to optimize two Channels methods

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

Richard Earnshaw wrote:


> I noticed that you didn't send any mails to java-patches at all on Friday, 
> so we were then into the weekend.
>
> Finally on Monday I noticed that you were communicating again, but still 
> hadn't responded to my message.

I was gone all weekend, and by Monday I had completely forgotten your
message.

> By this point I was also feeling somewhat touchy (5 days since the 
> breakage occurred and no response),

> I don't want to start
> bombarding folks with emails, but at the same time, with no response it's 
> hard to know what is happening.

An email is quite in order by then, or even sooner.

> I'd really like to find a way to eliminate long periods like this when 
> development is being inhibited by fairly trivial breakages.

I agree with your concern, and more automated regression testing is
needed.  Still, if you're not a Java developer, can this breakage
really be said to inhibit development?  I do understand the annoyance,
though, because you don't know whether to tweak your build script
temporarily to disable Java, or hope it will get fixed soon.  I've
been in similar situations.
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