Re: Fixing other people's code (was: world broken in vinum (PATCH))

[Brian F. Feldman]

On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote:

> 
> 
> Let me add to this:
> > opinion:
> > 
> > If it's really blocking folks because things don't compile, it is always
> > acceptable to do what you need to do- the tree should always compile even
> > if -current. If the system doesn't boot because of change, then that's an
> > obvious one too. If things work differently or not as well, but things
> > are more or less working, it's not an emergency, so leave it for the
> > author to fix....
> 
> ...always modulo a short delay (call it a couple of hours) after reporting
> the problem... after all, you don't *know* that the update isn't finished
> and that other things are coming down the pipe... but a couple of hours
> leaves really the most reasonable time for an integration to complete and
> the author to have had lunch in between.
> 

I worded my original post wrong; my change did fix world. Your second point
(the "wait and see" approach) wouldn't apply in this case: Greg was asleep,
and world was broken.


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