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Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
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> On 04/04/11 16:20, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> My proposal would be: A patch may be reverted immediately by anyone
>>> with SVN write access if bootstrap is broken for more than 24 hours on
>>> any primary target. With proper notification to everyone involved,
>>> obviously.
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>> I agree.
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>> FWIW, I reported the breakage and identified the cause within 8 hours of
>> the initial checkin.
> A report 8 hrs after a checkin may fall outside working for some
> developers, so they won't see it until the next work day. ?Obviously the
> developer would be expected to address the problem ASAP, but let's not
> get out of hand on reverting patches.
>
Patch was checked in at Fri Apr 1 17:46:17 2011. I reported the failure
at 2011-04-01 18:49:28 and identified the range of causes. It is too bad
to take 3 days to fix it.
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H.J.