On 13 Nov 2010, at 19:36, Tim Moore wrote:

> There's never been a guarantee that the development sources compile for 
> everybody at all moments. That's why they are development sources. I 
> appreciate the Hudson process and quite often the change to get things 
> compiling on a given platform are obvious, but sometimes they aren't and one 
> needs to rely on the help of those who know the other platforms better. I 
> don't see why they would have get their own copy of the offending source code 
> from anywhere other than the "next" branch.

I tend to agree - I understand why processes such as that proposed by Alex make 
sense where the cost of breakage is very high, but with our number of 
developers and commit rate, I think a high-powered 'revert bad commits' system 
will generate more hassle than it avoids.

James


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