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Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at adacore dot com>
- To: Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, Bernd Schmidt <bernds at codesourcery dot com>, Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>, Steven Bosscher <stevenb dot gcc at gmail dot com>, David Edelsohn <dje at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Benjamin Kosnik <bkoz at redhat dot com>, "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 10:50:56 +0200
- Subject: Re: To Steering Committee: RFC for patch revert policy (PR48403, bootstrap broken on many targets)
- References: <BANLkTi=AgWe2QOQ=bZ+a1XT7YQ1J1YKtyw@mail.gmail.com> <4D9A6CDA.6080203@codesourcery.com> <4D9A7EAD.7010101@redhat.com>
> I definitely think that if there is a policy change that an allowance be
> made for weekends/holidays and that if a patch has been identified and
> the offender has acknowledged the issue and is actively working on the
> problem give the offender time to resolve the issue.
This weekends/holidays allowance would be dangerous and counter-productive:
people would rush to install risky changes on Friday and leave for the
week-end fingers crossed. This would be worse than the current policy IMO.
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Eric Botcazou