Andrew Haley wrote:
I agree. I also agree that if someone breaks Java, they should be
required to fix the problem. In fact, we could have the rule that the
Java maintainers get to revert a patch summarily based merely on the
fact that there exists a Java post-patch failure that does not occur
pre-patch.
OK. I'm hoping that the java mainatiners won't have _all_ the burden, though.
We should have a trial phase where java build breakage on the autobuilders
is mailed to the maintainers who checked in patches and to the java
maintainers, and we'll see how it goes.
I'm open-minded about this, but if it doesn't work we should be prepared to
revert the policy.
I think that's reasonable. Perhaps a 30-day trial period, after the
autobuilder is set up? Then if we're seeing that the Java maintainers
have had to beat people up a lot -- and particularly if that isn't
yielding results -- then we revert?
To be clear, I have no special decision-making power here. I'm hoping
we can build a consensus to move in this direction, but it has to be a
consensus decision.
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